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Sep 12, 2021 · The film, which screens at the Toronto International Film Festival after premieres in Venice and Telluride, intuitively interrogates the past by analysing surviving pieces of footage shot by David Kurtz in Poland in 1938. Stigter constructs the entirety of her 70-minute film from these three moments of footage.
Three Minutes: A Lengthening: Directed by Bianca Stigter. With Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Clemens, Thomas Dudkiewicz, Glenn Kurtz. A snippet of 16mm film offers an emotionally charged, meditative glimpse into the lives of the unsuspecting Jewish citizens of a small Polish village at the precipice of World War II.
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- Documentary, History, War
- Bianca Stigter
- 2022-04-07
Nov 17, 2021 · Directed by the Dutch filmmaker Bianca Stigter and coproduced by her acclaimed husband Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Small Axe), the film is a brilliant essay on photography, time and necessarily, the Holocaust.
Bianca Stigter | 2021 | 69 min | English spoken. Three Minutes - A Lengthening shows an amateur film, mainly in color, shot by David Kurtz in 1938 of the Jewish inhabitants of a small town in Poland and tries to postpone its end.
The filmmaker is Dutch journalist and historian Bianca Stigter, who brought to life traces of the Second World War in Amsterdam in her book Atlas van een bezette stad (”Atlas of an Occupied City,” 2019). The narration is by actress Helena Bonham Carter.
Nov 12, 2022 · The book and the footage inspired the Dutch historian Bianca Stigter to direct the documentary Three Minutes: A Lengthening. It is a formidable work of investigation and memorialisation precisely because Stigter shot nothing new for it but relies on David Kurtz's three minutes of film, which she parsed forensically to identify as much as ...
Jan 3, 2022 · Now, the Dutch filmmaker Bianca Stigter has used the fragmentary, ephemeral footage to create “Three Minutes: A Lengthening,” a 70-minute feature film that helps to further define what and who...
