A home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland offers an emotionally charged, meditative glimpse into the lives of the unsuspecting Jewish citizens at the precipice of World War II. The three minutes of footage are examined moment by moment to unravel the human stories hidden in the celluloid. Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter.
The new films about the Nazis are clearly a response as well fully conscious or not to the rise and threat of the far right in Germany, the US and elsewhere.
Preserving the remaining traces of vital cultural artifacts from bygone eras is a vital journey in not only honoring the lives of people's ancestors, but