In Tampere, Finland, Juho Leppänen and the Camera Rescue Project set out to save 100,000 forgotten film cameras. Along the way they show there is a better way to keep our memories than piling up endless digital photos.
It starts with an uncomfortable fact. Billions of phone photos sit in clouds and on hard drives, and finding the moments that matter gets harder every year.
In a converted warehouse, Juho's team repairs, tests and finds new homes for old cameras that would otherwise end up as waste. Their model keeps the cameras working for another fifty years or more, and trains new technicians before the old knowledge disappears.
In the film, Juho's kids turn the dining table into a print station. I shoot my first roll of film and it changes how I take photos. And we go from road trips across Europe to a pop-up store at the Olympics.
This film is No. 9 in 100 Documentaries. Read more on the film's own page: Framing Time.
Behind the scenes
In the behind the scenes film I get help buying my own film camera.