International Competition

Three minutes

Bianca Stigter / Netherlands, Uk / 2021 / 69’ / English | Italian Subtitles

UNARCHIVE AWARD WINNER ASSIGNED BY INTERNATIONAL JURY


Three Minutes – A Lengthening Three Minutes – A Lengthening presents a home movie shot by David Kurtz in1938 in a Jewish town in Poland and tries to postpone its ending. As long as we are watching, history is not over yet. The three minutes of footage, mostly in colour, are the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. The existing three minutes are examined to unravel the stories hidden in the celluloid. The footage is imaginatively edited to create a film that lasts more than an hour. Different voices enhance the images. Glenn Kurtz, grandson of David Kurtz, provides his knowledge of the footage. Maurice Chandler, who appears in the film as a boy, shares his memories. Actress Helena Bonham Carter narrates the film essay.

ScreenplayBianca Stigter
Editing Katharina Wartena
MusicWilko Sterke
Sound design and mixMark Glynne
Cast Helena Bonham carter (Voiceover)
ProductionFamily Affair Films
Producer Floor Onrust
Co-Production Lammas Park
Co-Producer Steve McQueen
Visual Thaumar Rep

Bianca Stigter

Bianca Stigter is an historian and cultural critic. Directer of Three Minutes – Thirteen Minutes – Thirty Minutes (2014) and I Kiss This Letter – Farewell Letters from Amsterdammers (2018). Associated producer in, 12 years slave and Widows by Steve McQueen. In 2019 she published Atlas of an Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940-1945 and in 2021 at the Giornate degli Autori of Venice Film Festival the documentary Three Minutes: A Lengthening.

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