Also showing virtually all day – Oct 31-Nov 2
Three-minutes’ worth of 16mm film on the verge of ruin is what Glenn Kurtz found in his parent’s Florida home shortly after their passing. Shot by Kurtz’s grandfather on a European tour in 1938, the amateur footage captures the Jewish community of Nasielsk, Poland, just one year prior to the Nazis’ brutal invasion. Frame by frame, slowed, stilled, played backwards and forwards, Three Minutes: A Lengthening interrogates the found footage to resurrect the people and the town that disappeared in one of history’s most monumental tragedies. Based on Kurtz’s award-winning book, Three Minutes in Poland, and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, this documentary is an act of archival revelation, both fascinating in its scholarship and chilling in its discovery. ~TW
***Followed by a Q&A via Zoom with the director – this screening only***