FR 11 NOV / h 20.30
> Waag
in partnership with FAS - Film Association Southtyrol
> Waag
in partnership with FAS - Film Association Southtyrol
ANALOGICA RE/COLLECTION
THREE MINUTES - A LENGTHENING
by Bianca Stigter // NL UK 2021 // 69'
ENG ///
THREE MINUTES - A LENGTHENING
by Bianca Stigter // NL UK 2021 // 69'
ENG ///
Three Minutes - A Lengthening presents a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland and tries to postpone its ending. As long as we are watching, history is not over yet.
The three minutes of footage, mostly in colour, are the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. The existing three minutes are examined to unravel the stories hidden in the celluloid. The footage is imaginatively edited to create a film that lasts more than an hour. Different voices enhance the images. Glenn Kurtz, grandson of David Kurtz, provides his knowledge of the footage. Maurice Chandler, who appears in the film as a boy, shares his memories. Actress Helena Bonham Carter narrates the film essay. DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT As a child, David Kurtz emigrated from Poland to the United States. In 1938 he returned to Europe for a sightseeing trip and whilst there he visited Nasielsk, the town of his birth. Specifically for this trip he bought a 16mm camera, then still a novelty rarely seen in a small town never visited by tourists. Eighty years later his ordinary pictures, most of them in colour, have become something extraordinary. They are the only moving images that remain of Nasielsk prior to the Second World War. Almost all the people we see were murdered in the Holocaust. On Facebook I stumbled upon a book written about this film, Three Minutes in Poland by Glenn Kurtz. The title fascinated me. I ordered the book and watched the footage, which can be found on the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. While watching, I wondered: could you make those three minutes last longer, to keep the past in the present? For this film essay I examined the footage in the fullest detail, to see what the celluloid would yield to viewers almost a century later. |
The footage is treated as an archaeological artefact to gain entrance to the past.
I contacted Glenn Kurtz, travelled to Nasielsk to see if any traces remained from the past, and went to Detroit to speak with survivor Maurice Chandler and his family. After this extensive research, I edited the footage in different ways to bring to life as many of the facts and stories about Nasielsk as possible. A few seconds of the recording of a café become a dance scene, a single shot of the market square tells the story of the deportation of its Jewish citizens. All the faces that appear in the film are singled out and magnified to pay homage to the people of Nasielsk. The old images of the Polish town are combined with the way Nasielsk sounds today, creating a tense fusion of the past and the present. Three Minutes - A Lengthening is an experiment that turns scarcity into a quality. Living in a time marked by an abundance of images that are never viewed twice, we do the opposite here: circle the same moments again and again, convinced that they will give us a different meaning each time. The film starts and ends with the same unedited found footage, but the second time you will look at it quite differently. Three Minutes - A Lengthening investigates the nature of film and the perception of time. Through the act of watching, the viewers partake in the creation of a memorial. Bianca Stigter - Writer and Director Bianca Stigter is an historian and cultural critic. She made the short film essays Three Minutes -Thirteen Minutes - Thirty Minutes (2014) and I Kiss This Letter - Farewell Letters from Amsterdammers (2018). She is associate producer of Steve McQueen’s feature films 12 Years a Slave and Widows. In 2019 she published the book Atlas of an Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940-1945. |
Ven 11 NOV / h 20.30
> Waag proiezione in collaborazione con FAS - Film Association Southtyrol Three Minutes – A Lengthening attinge le sue immagini da un filmato amatoriale girato da David Kurtz nel 1938 in una cittadina ebrea polacca. I tre minuti del filmato, per lo più a colori, sono le uniche immagini in movimento rimaste degli abitanti ebrei di Nasielsk prima dell’Olocausto. Quei tre minuti vengono attentamente esaminati per rivelare e ritrovare le storie nascoste nelle sequenze della pellicola. Diverse voci arricchiscono le immagini. Glenn Kurtz, nipote di David Kurtz, mette a disposizione la conoscenza che ha del filmato. Maurice Chandler, che appare nel film da ragazzo, condivide i suoi ricordi. L’attrice Helena Bonham Carter è la voce narrante. NOTE DI REGIA Ho trattato il materiale come un reperto archeologico per entrare nel passato. Ho contattato Glenn Kurtz, mi sono recata a Nasielsk per vedere se fossero rimaste tracce del passato e sono andata a Detroit per parlare con il sopravvissuto Maurice Chandler e la sua famiglia. Dopo questa vasta ricerca, ho lavorato sul filmato in diversi modi. Ho voluto dare vita a più episodi e storie possibili su Nasielsk. Pochi secondi della ripresa di un caffè sono diventati una scena di ballo. Un'unica inquadratura della piazza del mercato racconta la deportazione dei suoi cittadini ebrei. Tutti i volti che appaiono nel film vengono individuati e ingranditi per rendere omaggio alla gente di Nasielsk. Le antiche immagini della città polacca si combinano con il suono odierno di Nasielsk, creando una sorta di fusione tra passato e presente. Three Minutes - A Lengthening – Tre minuti- un'estensione- è un esperimento che trasforma la scarsità in qualità. Viviamo un'epoca segnata dall''abbondanza d'immagini, immagini che non vengono mai viste due volte. Nel mio film faccio il contrario: cerco ancora e ancora gli stessi momenti, convinta che ci daranno ogni volta un significato diverso. Il film inizia e finisce con lo stesso found footage inedito, ma la seconda volta lo guarderai in modo completamente diverso. Three Minutes - A Lengthening indaga la natura del film e la percezione del tempo. Attraverso l'atto di guardare, gli spettatori partecipano alla creazione di un memoriale. Bianca Stigter - Scrittrice e regista Bianca Stigter è storica e critica culturale. Ha realizzato i cortometraggi Three Minutes -Thirteen Minutes - Thirty Minutes (2014) e I Kiss This Letter - Farewell Letters from Amsterdammers (2018). È produttrice associata dei film di Steve McQueen '12 Anni schiavo' e Vedove'. Nel 2019 ha pubblicato il libro Atlas of an Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940-1945. |
Fr 11. November / 20.30 Uhr
> Waag Vorführung in Zusammenarbeit mit FAS - Film Association Southtyrol Three Minutes - A Lengthening basiert auf einem Amateurfilm, den David Kurtz 1938 in einer polnisch-jüdischen Stadt drehte. Die drei Minuten Filmmaterial, zumeist in Farbe, sind die einzigen erhaltenen bewegten Bilder der jüdischen Einwohner von Nasielsk vor dem Holocaust. Diese drei Minuten werden untersucht, um die auf dem Zelluloid verborgenen Geschichten zu enthüllen. Mehrere Stimmen bereichern die Bilder. Glenn Kurtz, der Enkel von David Kurtz, stellt sein Wissen über das Filmmaterial zur Verfügung. Maurice Chandler, der in dem Film als Junge auftritt, teilt seine Erinnerungen mit. Die Schauspielerin Helena Bonham Carter fungiert als Erzählstimme. STATEMENT DES REGISSEURS Ich habe das Material wie einen archäologischen Fund behandelt, um in die Vergangenheit einzutauchen. Ich nahm Kontakt zu Glenn Kurtz auf, reiste nach Nasielsk, um zu sehen, ob es noch Spuren der Vergangenheit gibt und fuhr nach Detroit, um mit dem Überlebenden Maurice Chandler und seiner Familie zu sprechen. Nach dieser umfangreichen Recherche habe ich den Film auf verschiedene Weise bearbeitet. Ich wollte so viele Episoden und Geschichten über Nasielsk wie möglich zum Leben erwecken. Ein paar Sekunden einer Café-Aufnahme wurden zu einer Tanzszene. Eine einzige Aufnahme des Marktplatzes erzählt von der Deportation der jüdischen Bürger. Alle Gesichter, die im Film auftauchen, werden herausgegriffen und herangezoomt, um den Menschen von Nasielsk zu huldigen. Die alten Bilder der polnischen Stadt werden mit dem heutigen Klang von Nasielsk kombiniert, so dass eine spannungsvolle Verschmelzung von Vergangenheit und Gegenwart entsteht. Three Minutes - A Lengthening - ist ein Experiment, das Knappheit in Qualität verwandelt. Wir leben in einer Zeit, die von der Fülle der Bilder geprägt ist, Bilder, die man nie zweimal sieht. In meinem Film mache ich das Gegenteil: Ich umkreise dieselben Momente immer wieder, in der Überzeugung, dass sie uns jedes Mal eine andere Bedeutung vermitteln. Der Film beginnt und endet mit demselben unbearbeiteten Found-Footage-Material, aber beim zweiten Mal wird man es ganz anders betrachten. Three Minutes - A Lengthening untersucht das Wesen des Films und die Wahrnehmung von Zeit. Durch den Akt des Zuschauens nimmt der Betrachter an der Schaffung eines Mahnmals teil. Bianca Stigter - Die Autorin und Regisseurin Bianca Stigter ist Historikerin und Kulturkritikerin. Sie drehte die Kurzfilme Three Minutes - Thirty Minutes (2014) und I Kiss This Letter - Farewell Letters from Amsterdammers (2018). Sie ist Associate Producer von Steve McQueens Spielfilmen 12 Years a Slave und Widows. Im Jahr 2019 veröffentlichte sie das Buch Atlas of an Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940-1945. |
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