Three Minutes
A Lengthening
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A recently-discovered three-minute film of a Polish town in 1938 is transformed into an expansive meditation on memory, erasure and the Holocaust. Venice 2021.
The small Polish town of Nasielsk was once home to around 3000 Jewish people. Fewer than 100 of them survived the Holocaust. A year prior to their fateful deportation, Jewish-American David Kurtz visited his childhood town, shooting three minutes of amateur holiday footage during his stay. Decades later, Dutch director Bianca Stigter – with the help of narrator Helena Bonham Carter – dives deep into this precious fragment. Through inventive assemblage and intimate reflections, the footage unfurls into a haunting tapestry of mystery and loss demonstrating how the film medium can bear witness. Co-produced by Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave). BIANCA STIGTER is a Dutch filmmaker and writer. She was associate producer on Widows (2018) and 12 Years a Slave (2013).
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Tickets
Tue 14 Jun
8:30pm
Palace Norton Street
Wed 15 Jun
9:30am
State Theatre
Thu 16 Jun
6:30pm
Ritz Randwick - Cinema 5
Sun 19 Jun
3:15pm
Hayden Orpheum Cremorne - Cinema 5
- Program Strand
- Europe! Voices of Women in Film
- Year
- 2021
- Classification
- All Ages
- Country
- Netherlands, UK
- Language
- In English, Polish, German and Yiddish with English subtitles
- Director
- Bianca Stigter
- Producer
- Floor Onrust
- Cast
- Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter
- Screenwriter
- Bianca Stigter
- Editor
- Katharina Wartena
- Premiere
- Australian Premiere
- Genre
- Women Directors, Documentary, Experimental, Human Rights, Politics & Economics, Religion & Belief
- Company Credits
- Australian Distributor: Madman Entertainment
