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‘Three Minutes – A Lengthening’ Review: A Memorial Crafted from Home-Movie Footage

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Alissa Simon Film CriticRare home movie footage shot in Poland in 1938 becomes a priceless historical artifact, documenting people and places obliterated by the Holocaust in Dutch writer-director Bianca Stigter’s haunting and provocative documentary essay “Three Minutes – A Lengthening.” She utilizes the three minutes and some-odd seconds of 16mm film shot by American visitor David Kurtz in the Jewish quarter of Nasielsk to craft an original and incisive meditation on history, memory, memorials and the very nature of celluloid.

Certain to be an international festival talking point, the poignant film should segue to an extended life in ancillary.Stigter’s method is simultaneously creative and forensic, but never sentimental.

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