This award-winning documentary short profiles Australia's last remaining photochemical film lab — a vanishing pocket of industrial craft that once underpinned the entire motion picture industry. Screened at Tropfest 2018, MOMA's Doc Fortnight, and Sheffield Doc/Fest, it's a well-credentialed piece of filmmaking from a channel with just two subscribers.

The film matters because photochemical processing is a genuinely complex craft: developing 35mm negative involves precise chemistry, temperature control, timing, and mechanical handling of light-sensitive stock in complete darkness. As digital cinema has swallowed the industry, the labs that perform this work have shuttered one by one — taking decades of tacit knowledge with them. Watching a "last of its kind" operation is a rare chance to see the physical infrastructure of 20th-century cinema before it disappears entirely.

Expect an intimate look at the machines, the chemistry, and the people who kept analog film alive long past its commercial obsolescence. It's both a technical document and a meditation on craft in an age of automation — the kind of story that only gets told once, because after this, there's nothing left to film.