ARTS AND CULTURE

Bianca Stigter

Filmmaker

Dutch film director Bianca Stigter was the creative force behind the highly acclaimed 2022 documentary, "Three Minutes: A Lengthening." The film is based on the 2014 non-fiction book Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film by American musician Glenn Kurz, whose grandfather David shot three minutes of color footage of the Jewish community in the Polish village of Nasielsk in 1938, shortly before it was decimated during the Holocaust. "This is a very rare thing that we have this footage, in color, of the Jewish community in 1938, in a small town in Poland, one year before the Germans invaded. I see it as a film against the erasure because that's what was happening," she reflected after the film's release. "The whole community was erased. So, here we have a document that shows you the raw power of recording, and an inkling of what it was like." (Photo: Wikimedia / Creative Commons License)