Join us for a virtual screening of Three Minutes: A Lengthening. Bianca Stigter’s documentary transforms rare colour home-movie footage shot in 1938 Poland into a testament to the victims of the Holocaust.
Home movies may be the most haunting cinema of all, taking on the lustre of loss and mortality with each passing year. The home movies Glenn Kurtz found in his parents’ home in Florida were rarer and more precious still. His award-winning book, Three Minutes in Poland, explores the amateur footage his grandfather shot on a European trip in 1938, focusing on members of the Jewish community in Nasielsk, Poland, just one year before the Nazis invaded on their murderous campaign.
In Three Minutes – A Lengthening, Bianca Stigter transforms David Kurtz’s shimmering images from over 80 years ago into a remarkable meditation on what it means for a lost community to be captured on film. Kurtz’ footage gives Stigter rich material to illustrate the detective work needed to recover the stories of a village destroyed by the Holocaust.
The film will be available to registered viewers between February 22nd and March 1st.
Free reservations are required.
This screening is being held alongside our Virtual Book Talk: Once There Was a Town by Jane Ziegelman, moderated by Glenn Kurtz.
The event is being run in partnership with the Toronto Holocaust Museum and the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.
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