Archiving Time
2019, Chinese. Directed by Lu Yuan-chi.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 3m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Chinese
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- Released
- 25 October 2019
- Original title
- 數電影的人
- Country
- Taiwan
- Written by
- Lin Yu-sheng
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Archiving Time runs 63 minutes (1h 3m).
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Archiving Time isn’t on a subscription OTT platform in India, but you can watch it free online. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed Archiving Time?
Archiving Time (2019) was directed by Lu Yuan-chi and stars Allen Chung, Wang Wei, Chang Sung-ju.