Public Screening and Director Discussion of New Holocaust Documentary Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Appalachian State University’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies invites the public to a screening of the new Holocaust documentary Three Minutes: A Lengthening. It is followed by a discussion with the prominent Holocaust scholar Prof. Michael Berenbaum (Amercian Jewish University) and the renowened Holocaust educator and survivor Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff. The film's director, the Dutch cultural critic and historian Bianca Stigter, will respond to questions live from the Netherlands. The screening will take place at Grandview Ballroom, North End Zone Building at Kidd Brewer Stadium, 135 Jack Branch Drive, ASU campus, on Monday, July 25, starting at 7:00 pm. Biance Stigter will join us the following morning, Tuesday, July 26, at 8:30 am. The event is part of the twentieth anniversary Martin and Doris Rosen Summer Symposium on Film and Photography During and After the Holocaust.
"Three Minutes: A Lengthening", Bianca Stigter's feature film directorial debut, World-Premiered at last year's Venice Film Festival. The North American release date is set for Fall 2022. It is based on Stigter's short film essay “Three Minutes – Thirteen Minutes – Thirty Minutes,” which was prompted in part by the organizers of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, who invited several critics to contribute video essays as part of a new program. Both films were inspired by the book Three Minutes In Poland: Discovering A Lost World In A 1938 Family Film, in which author Glenn Kurtz tells the story of three minutes of footage shot in the town of Nasielsk, Poland, by his grandfather David who was visiting from the US in the summer of 1938. Stigter's documentary on this home-movie footage captures and reflects on a rare visual record of a Jewish community that German forces would soon obliterate in the Holocaust. Her research for the film took her to Nasielsk in order to speak with residents. She also interviewed one of the few survivors, Maurice Chandler, in Detroit. "Three Minutes" is co-produced by the filmmaker’s husband Steve McQueen, with whom she has also worked on a number of other projects, including the critically-acclaimed feature film “12 Years a Slave.”
Free and open to the public. This is a hybrid program. To register for the online Zoom version (for the post-screening discussion on Monday and meeting with the director on Tuesday), click here: https://appstate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElcuirqzsuHNyiBD4novBMys2m15XBj7ob. To get the link for an individual online screening of the film, please contact the Center for Judiac, Holocaust and Peace Studies at 828.262.2311 or holocaust@appstate.edu.