The Archivists (2020)

Directed by

Igor Drljaca

Genre

science fiction film, musical film, dystopian film

Country

Canada

Runtime

14 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a dystopian future where old art is banned, three traveling musicians find a hidden room with a vinyl record and a phonograph. They listen to a song and decide to perform it themselves.

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What happens

The Archivists is a 2020 Canadian short drama film, directed by Igor Drljaca. Set in a dystopian future in which all art from the past has been banned, the film centres on William (Noah Reid), Serena (Bahia Watson) and Samuel (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos), an itinerant trio of musicians who happen on a secret room whose contents include an old vinyl record and a phonograph, and are inspired to perform a rendition of one of the album's songs after listening to it. The film premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. It was subsequently named to TIFF's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films in 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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