Rare home-movie footage shot in Poland in 1938 becomes a priceless historical artifact, documenting people and places lost to the Holocaust in this haunting and provocative documentary essay. Director Bianca Stigter utilizes the three minutes of 16mm film shot by American visitor David Kurtz in the Jewish quarter of Nasielsk to craft an original and incisive meditation on history, memory, memorials and the very nature of celluloid. Stigter’s method is simultaneously creative and forensic, but never sentimental. Working with a digitized copy that bears the blemishes left by the deterioration of the original celluloid, Stigter conjures up exactly what she declares in the subtitle: a lengthening. On the image track, the three-plus minutes play out again and again, but Stigter cleverly varies the way she presents the limited material. By the end of the film, the images resonate with a larger meaning, creating an unforgettable and unique memorial.