
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 is the Stefan and Lucy Hejna Family Chair in Polish Language and Literature and Head of the De...
[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.]



