Year: 2020
Country:
NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM
Language:
English
Run Time:
69 minutes
What can be captured in three minutes time? Unknown faces? Unmarked buildings? Look harder, and you may find a priceless snapshot of an unsuspecting Jewish town mere months before being devastated by the Holocaust. In 1938, David Kurtz and his wife departed Brooklyn for a grand tour of Europe and stopped off in what would later be identified as Nasielsk, Poland. There, Kurtz let his camera roll over snippets of everyday life: children’s smiling faces in the street, families departing the synagogue, and casual strolls around the town square. THREE MINUTES: A LENGTHENING features these precious moments of home film footage, meticulously studied and dissected to rescue the lost memory of this community. With the help of dedicated historians and the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., Kurtz’s grandson, Glenn, attempts to piece together this image of history that would have otherwise been forgotten. A fascinating, illuminating process, these painstaking efforts serve as a visual memorial of the innocent Nasielsk faces and spaces we must never forget. —A.B.
Allen Theatre
Tuesday, April 05, 2022 at 12:05 PM
Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 7:35 PM
Accessibility (?)
Closed Captions: No
Audio Description: No
English Subtitles: No
Related Event
46th CIFF College Program
Sidebars
Jewish Cinema
Only at Playhouse Square
Competitions
New Direction Competition
Reel Women Direct Award for Excellence in Directing by a Woman
Director
Bianca Stigter
Producer
Floor Onrust
Screenwriting
Bianca Stigter
Cinematography
David Kurtz
Editing
Katharina Wartena
Super LTD
http://superltd.com
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