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Archiving Time

Oct 25, 2019 · 1h 3m
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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.

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CAST

Allen Chung
Himself
Wang Wei
Himself
Chang Sung-ju
Himself
Wu Chia-chu
Himself
Tsai Min-cheng
Himself
Wu Bao-fong
Herself
Wei Pei-lei
Herself
Xu Jing-ping
Himself
Directed by Lu Yuan-chi

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Status
Released
Original language
ZH
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Production
7th Day Film
Country
TW

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