Four Days at the National Preservation Centre

This short documentary is an immersive experience into the Library and Archives of Canada’s National Preservation Centre in Gatineau, Quebec. The film presents a symphony of relationships between human and object, story and materiality. The Preservation Centre is a space that embodies the past and predicaments for the future, as particular technologies required to access the archives are becoming ever more obsolete. Four Days at the National Preservation Centre (2019) uses a textural, meditative aesthetic in an effort to represent our obsession with tactility as evidence, and technology as an extension of human life itself.

Screenings

Official Selection, Hot Docs International Film Festival 2021, Toronto.
Official Selection, Edmonton International Film Festival 2020, Edmonton.
Official Selection, Art Gallery of Hamilton Film Festival 2020, Hamilton.
Semi-Finalist, Lunenburg Doc Fest 2020, Lunenburg.
Semi-Finalist, Art Color Digital Cinema International Film Festival 2020, Brussels.

Details

Directors:
Lindsay Fitzgerald, Andrew Bateman, Sean Stiller
Cinematographer:
Sean Stiller
Editors:
Andrew Bateman, Sean Stiller, Lindsay Fitzgerald
Music Score:
Anthony Wallace
Sound Mix:
Inaam Haq