Archiving Time
Archiving Time

Archiving Time

2019-10-25 | 63 min

In Taiwan, there is a group of people participating in this race against time. They are hidden inside the film archive of New Taipei City’s “Singapore Industrial Park”, where the 17,000-plus film reels and over a million film artifacts have become their spiritual nourishment. Day after day, they shuttle back and forth inside, carrying their doubts, their learnings, and their faith. What they are doing is awakening these long-neglected film reels, then piecing together the no-longer-existent social atmospheres and lives of distant pasts recorded on them. And spending time in this archive has become everyday life for these film archivists and restorers.

Genres

Documentary History

Cast

Allen Chung

Allen Chung

Wang Wei

Wang Wei

Chung Sung-ju

Chung Sung-ju

Wu Chia-chu

Wu Chia-chu

Tsai Min-cheng

Tsai Min-cheng

Wu Bao-fong

Wu Bao-fong

Wei Pei-lei

Wei Pei-lei

Xu Jing-ping

Xu Jing-ping

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