Bianca Stigter

Bianca Stigter, Lady McQueen is a Dutch film director from Amsterdam. She directed Three Minutes: A Lengthening.[2]

Bianca Stigter
Born (1964-05-26) 26 May 1964[1]
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Occupation(s)Writer, Director, Producer
PartnerSteve McQueen

She is married to director Steve McQueen, and was associate producer on his films Widows and 12 Years a Slave.[3]

Stigter is the daughter of K. Schippers, the Dutch poet, prose writer and art critic.[4]

Films

Stigter's film Three Minutes: A Lengthening, dissects a short home movie filmed in Nasielsk, Poland, in 1938. The footage is significant because 3,000 of Nasielsk's 7,000 inhabitants were Jewish and only 100 of those residents survived the Holocaust. Stigter's editing of the footage acts to lengthen its screentime from 3 minutes to 69 minutes, while posing questions about the characters and their fate. The film is narrated by Helena Bonham Carter.[5] The film was co-written by Glenn Kurtz, who describes "This is probably the only movie imagery of this community before it was destroyed, and almost certainly the only images of many of the people, particularly the children who appear in it, in existence. I felt this tremendous sense of responsibility to their memory."[6]

Stigter is also the writer for the 2023 documentary Occupied City, which focuses on the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam from 1940 to 1945. The film is based on her illustrated history book, Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940-1945.[7]

References
  1. "Biana Stigter". Retrieved May 3, 2023.
  2. "Bianca Stigter: 7 Films That Taught Me What Cinema Is Capable Of". A.frame. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
  3. Cremers, Roger (January 10, 2014). "12 Years a Slave: Bianca Stigter on finding Solomon Northup". Evening Standard.
  4. "K. Schippers - The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia". www.artandpopularculture.com.
  5. Nicholson, Rebecca (January 24, 2023). "Three Minutes: A Lengthening review – Helena Bonham Carter is profoundly poetic in an astounding documentary" – via The Guardian.
  6. Carey, Matthew (December 13, 2022). "Oscar-Contending Documentary 'Three Minutes – A Lengthening' Investigates Mystery Footage From Eve Of World War II".
  7. "Steve McQueen's 'Occupied City' will premiere at Cannes". faroutmagazine.co.uk. April 13, 2023.


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