Life in Poland Before the Holocaust: Preview Screening of Three Minutes A Lengthening
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Life in Poland Before the Holocaust: Preview Screening of Three Minutes A Lengthening

About the Event:

Join CHF for a preview screening of Three Minutes — A Lengthening, a film essay examining a 1938 home video that comprises the only known footage of Nasielsk, Poland’s Jewish inhabitants before the Holocaust. Directed by Bianca Stigter (12 Years a Slave), co-produced by Steve McQueen, and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, Three Minutes is a meditation on the nature of time, scarcity, survival, memory, and film itself. Join CHF for an afternoon about how this brief, private record uncovered a lost piece of public history.

Watch the trailer for Three Minutes — A Lengthening and read the New York Times review "A Film Captures Jewish Life in a Polish Town Before the Nazis Arrived."

Michał Paweł Markowski

Michał Paweł Markowski

Michał Paweł Markowski is the Stefan and Lucy Hejna Family Chair in Polish Language and Literature and Head of the De...

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[Event tile image description: The event image at the top left of the event page is a film still from Three Minutes — A Lengthening. In the vintage image, a group of people are in front of the camera, some looking towards the lens and others with their attention directed elsewhere. They are outside with town buildings in the background.]