Three minutes of grainy home video from 1938 are all that’s left a small Polish town wiped out by the Holocaust. Director Bianca Stigter unravels a single snippet of 16mm footage into an emotionally charged meditation on a doomed town on the brink of war. With a forensic level of focus, Stigter dissects the fleeting moments caught on film frame by frame, and slowly shapes an essay on the nature of grief and memory. Called “haunting and provocative” by Variety, this doc weaves narration from Helena Bonham Carter with interviews from the grandson of the original cameraman, as well as a boy who appears in the footage—one of just a handful of survivors of the mostly Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk.
In English, Polish, German and Yiddish with English subtitles.
Tickets: $15 (Members from $10)
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