The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre and the Toronto Holocaust Museum Present a Screening of:
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
A DOCUMENTARY BY BIANCA STIGTER
The VHEC, in partnership with the Toronto Holocaust Museum, presents 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, one year before the Nazi invasion.
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.
The screening will be available to registered viewers between February 22 and March 1.
Free reservations are required here.
