The story of the only three minutes of footage —a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938— showing images of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk (Poland) before the beginning of the Shoah.
Direction
Stigter stretches three minutes into profound meditation without exploitation.
Editing
Looping, slowing, freezing frames—time itself becomes suspect.
Director
Bianca Stigter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
David Kurtz shot the original footage during a European vacation; he had no idea his childhood town would be emptied of Jews within three years.
The film inspired a global search that identified twelve living survivors from those three minutes—proof that archives can literally save lives from historical oblivion.
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