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Release Date:
October 25, 2019
Original Title:
數電影的人
Alternate Titles:
Archiving Time
數電影的人
Genres:
Documentary | History
Production Companies:
7th Day Film
Production Countries:
Taiwan
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 63
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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Camera Operator:
Yu-sheng Lin
Yuan-Chi Lu
Hung-Yuan Hsu
Co-Writer:
Randy Wu
Director:
Yuan-Chi Lu
Executive Producer:
Chun-Chi Wang
Pin-chuan Chen
Producer:
Hung Ting-yi
Production Manager:
Yu-sheng Lin
Writer:
Yu-sheng Lin
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