Archiving Time

Preserve the memory, preserve the films, preserve our history.

A lot of these films are dying soon, our goal is to try to preserve the content in them before they die.

In Taiwan, there is a group of people racing against time. They are hidden inside the film archive at New Taipei City, their spirits nourished by the 17,000+ film reels and the million film artifacts. Archivists and film restoration specialists shuttle back and forth, carrying their doubts, their learnings, and their faith day-after-day. What they are doing is awakening these long-neglected film reels, piecing together the long-gone social atmospheres, and reigniting the lives of distant pasts recorded on these footages.

Documentary / Color / Mandarin / Mandarin & English Subtitles / 63 min / 2019

Sept. 11 (Fri) 6:00 PM – Sept. 13 (Sun) 6:00 PM (PDT)

Director Biography

Yuan-Chi Lu

Yuan-Chi Lu, graduated from the Department of Motion Picture, National Taiwan University of Arts, has devoted himself to documentary filming since 2006. He has been collaborating with director Shen Ko-Shang in many works, such as Love Talk, Ways into Love, and Children From The Distant Planet. He was also the photographer for Our Youth in Taiwan, which was awarded the Best Documentary in Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.