In 2009, Glenn Kurtz discovered a crumbling 16mm color home movie in his parents’ closet, which his grandfather David had shot on a 1938 European vacation. It included three minutes of what would turn out to be the only known footage of the predominantly Jewish town of Nasielsk, Poland—David Kurtz’s birthplace—just one year before the Nazis would destroy it. Director Bianca Stigter constructs her entire film from these moments of footage, creating a cinematic meditation on memory and loss, as offscreen interviewees provide context. Examining each haunting frame for clues and interrogating every detail, Three Minutes: A Lengthening eloquently demonstrates the power of cinema to reclaim history.
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
There are no showtimes currently scheduled for this film.
This series is sponsored by:
John and Linda Ehrlich
Susan Katz and Seth Truwit
George and Judy Marchese
Roberta and Joseph Rosenblum
Elisabeth and Gary Schonfeld
Anonymous
Nadia and Bob Bernstein
Bonnie Gale
Kauff McGuire & Margolis LLP
AJC Westchester/Fairfield receives generous support from the following donors which helps to make this sponsorship possible:
Sponsors
Anonymous
Stephne and Kerrin Behrend
Froma and Andrew Benerofe
Dorian Goldman and Marvin Israelow
Katja Goldman and Michael Sonnenfeldt
Susan and Dr. Elliott Rose
Harriet and Leonard Schleifer
Elisabeth and Gary Schonfeld
Patrons
Susan and Mark Alcott
Bet Torah
Gail A. Binderman
Paula Blumenfeld and Joseph Gantz
George Bruckman
Nina Freedman and Michael Rosenbaum
Debra and Jeffrey Geller
Ruth S. Greer
Lynn and Jules Kroll
Denise and David Levine
The Leroy Family
Amy and Frank Linde
Cheryl Brandes Pine and Lloyd Pine
Plaza Jewish Community Chapel, Inc.
Yvonne and Leslie Pollack Foundation, Inc.
Heidi and Richard Rieger
Judy and Steven Rieger
Evelyn and Brian Rosen
Beverly and Michael Rosenbaum
Linda and Dr. Norton Rosensweig
Deborah and Stephen Schwartz
Susan and Joel Schwartz
Janice and Ira Starr
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Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Tickets: $12 (members), $17 (nonmembers)
“A remarkable glimpse of Jewish life before the Holocaust”
“An essay about absence and the indexical power of film. Despite the erasure of entire communities during the Holocaust, Kurtz’s footage offers a record that these people existed and that they had lives and stories”
This film is part of the Jewish Film Festival 2022 series.
This series is sponsored by:
John and Linda Ehrlich
Susan Katz and Seth Truwit
George and Judy Marchese
Roberta and Joseph Rosenblum
Elisabeth and Gary Schonfeld
Anonymous
Nadia and Bob Bernstein
Bonnie Gale
Kauff McGuire & Margolis LLP
AJC Westchester/Fairfield receives generous support from the following donors which helps to make this sponsorship possible:
Sponsors
Anonymous
Stephne and Kerrin Behrend
Froma and Andrew Benerofe
Dorian Goldman and Marvin Israelow
Katja Goldman and Michael Sonnenfeldt
Susan and Dr. Elliott Rose
Harriet and Leonard Schleifer
Elisabeth and Gary Schonfeld
Patrons
Susan and Mark Alcott
Bet Torah
Gail A. Binderman
Paula Blumenfeld and Joseph Gantz
George Bruckman
Nina Freedman and Michael Rosenbaum
Debra and Jeffrey Geller
Ruth S. Greer
Lynn and Jules Kroll
Denise and David Levine
The Leroy Family
Amy and Frank Linde
Cheryl Brandes Pine and Lloyd Pine
Plaza Jewish Community Chapel, Inc.
Yvonne and Leslie Pollack Foundation, Inc.
Heidi and Richard Rieger
Judy and Steven Rieger
Evelyn and Brian Rosen
Beverly and Michael Rosenbaum
Linda and Dr. Norton Rosensweig
Deborah and Stephen Schwartz
Susan and Joel Schwartz
Janice and Ira Starr
With support from:
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