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Discussion

Analyzing two documentary films: “Po-lin” (Polin. Okruchy pamięci, 2008) by Jolanta Dylewska and “Three Minutes: A Lengthening“ (2021) by Bianca Stigter. I am going to show how a transmedia storytelling system that uses private film memories and modern communication technologies can be used to tell stories of the Jews living in Poland before 1939. Both Dylewska and Stigther worked with amateur film sequences from 1920-1930s, shot by private persons living abroad, who came back to visit the places of origin of their ancestors and find living relatives. Dylewska edited numerous amateur films from various locations, to create a translocal image of everyday life in  shtetls in 1920-1930s. Whereas Stigter worked with a three minutes long film from Nasielsk in 1938, using multi media technology to investigate details of single frames: faces, clothes, places.