Three Minutes – A Lengthening

A creative found-footage documentary presents a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland and tries to postpone its ending. At the end of 1939, the people visible in the film, and all the Jews in Nasielsk, were deported to ghettos, then sent to the Treblinka extermination camp. Kurtz’s footage, which had almost rotted just before it was discovered and restored, is the only visual record remaining. The existing three minutes are examined to unravel the stories hidden in the celluloid. Α remarkable meditation on what it means for a lost community to be captured on film. As long as we are watching, history is not over yet.