Three Minutes - A Lengthening

It is aware of its limitations and is all the more powerful for it.

Stigter’s memorable achievement here is not just a lengthening; it’s also a deepening and an emotionally enriching one.

Part detective procedural, part memorial, its cumulative power is devastating.

Thoroughly compelling and haunting.

It’s unnerving and important film-making about grief, loss and bearing witness. Moving pictures indeed.

... Film can’t return the dead to life. But it can hold precious knowledge: that lives were lived, and how, and where.

Not your conventional Holocaust documentary…. Fragments get incessantly replayed, slowed down, reversed, enlarged, and otherwise altered to sniff out clues and provide context, sometimes agonizingly so.

An essential viewing, especially given the rise of antisemitism in this country at the moment, that celebrates life as much as it does remind us of how tenuous it is.

Bianca Stigter keeps the memory of the dead alive by preserving the last known artifact of their existence.

This very unusual documentary gives the viewer a haunting glimpse into a world just before its destruction. It is like seeing video of Pompeii just before the eruption.