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Bianca Stigter
NL UK 2021 68'
⚬ History ⚬ Human Interest
THREE MINUTES - A LENGTHENING presents a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland and tries to postpone its ending. The film is a haunting essay about history and memory. As long as we are watching, history is not over yet. The three minutes of footage, mostly in color, are the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. Those precious minutes are examined moment by moment to unravel the human stories hidden in the celluloid. Different voices enhance the images: Glenn Kurtz, grandson of David Kurtz, and Maurice Chandler, who appears in the footage as a young boy. Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter.
Director | Bianca Stigter |
Producer | Floor Onrust |
Co-Producer | Steve McQueen |
Production Company | Family Affair Films |
Co-Production Company | Lammas Park |
In collaboration with | VPRO |
Cinematography | David Kurtz |
Writer | Bianca Stigter |
Editor | Katharina Wartena |
Music | Wilko Sterke |
Sound | Mark Glynne |
Documentary Award | Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival 2022 |
European Young Jury Award | Brussels IFF 2022 |
Special Mention Director's Week | Brussels IFF 2022 |
Nominated for Outstanding Editing | Cinema Eye Honors 2022 |
Giornate degli Autori 2021 |
TIFF 2021 |
Telluride 2021 |
IDFA 2021 |
DOC NYC 2021 |
Sundance 2022 |
Göteborg FF 2022 |
Premiers Plans 2022 |
Thessaloniki Documentary FF 2022 |
Doc Aviv 2022 |
Against Gravity 2022 |
Taiwan IDF 2022 |
Encounters FF 2022 |
Sydney FF 2022 |
| Runtime | 69' |
| Spoken Languages | English, Polish, Yiddish, German |
| Production Countries | The Netherlands, UK |
Bianca Stigter is a historian and cultural critic. She made the short film essays THREE MINUTES - THIRTEEN MINUTES - THIRTY MINUTES (2014) and I KISS THIS LETTER - FAREWELL LETTERS FROM AMSTERDAMMERS (2018). She is associate producer of Steve McQueen’s feature films 12 YEARS A SLAVE and WIDOWS. In 2019 she published the book "Atlas of an Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940-1945".
