Last Highway Films LLC has entered the final stages of post-production work on its
exciting debut motion picture, The Archivist – a one-of-a-kind, all-original science
fiction/spaghetti western/horror/apocalyptic road epic shot in glorious Techniscope on
35mm in Nevada and Georgia.
The Archivist depicts a bizarre near-future totalitarian society where “the past is
forbidden, and memories are treason” – and bloodthirsty government agents called
“archivists” scour a fallen America for illegal artifacts of civilization and punish those
who harbor them. But Agent Calder Benson, the most brutal archivist of them all, soon
finds the artifacts he is ordered to destroy have a powerful lure on him – and hold the
key to forbidden memories he was forced to forget. To find the disturbing truth of his
true identity, Agent Benson steals a 1970s muscle car and escapes to the high deserts
and strange swamp roads of a post-apocalyptic America crawling with glue-sniffing
crazies who attack airplanes with chainsaws, an evil overlord who rules the remnants
of civilization, and a motorcycle-riding masked Sheriff who is not what he appears to
be!
The Archivist is a strikingly authentic homage to the wild, colorful drive-in and
midnight movies of the 1960s and 1970s. Shot on restored Techniscope Arriflex
cameras and cinema lenses, director Eric Hand, who also stars as Agent Benson, has
resurrected classic cinematography and captured it on Kodak film stock.
Says Hand: “Whether it was in my choice of a lens or my choice of a gun, as actor and
director I set out to make a no holds-barred, hell of a movie that would entertain and
maybe just make some people think about what movies used to mean and how they
were made, and how they looked during the American New Wave, before digital
technologies became the order of the day."
View the website at: thearchivistmovie.com
