Three Minutes - A Lengthening

The three minutes of footage explored in this extraordinary film is the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. The filmmaker inhabits and examines every frame of the home movie Glenn KURTZ found in his parents' home in Florida, transforming the rare colour footage shot in 1938 Poland into a riveting and haunting essay film narrated by actress Helena Bonham CARTER that unravels the stories hidden in the celluloid.