The Last Artifact

About The Last Artifact

Just outside Paris, France, inside a high-tech vault, requiring three independently controlled keys, rests a small metallic cylinder about the diameter of a golf ball. Encased within three vacuum-sealed bell jars it may not look like much, but it is one of the most important objects on the planet.

Ed Watkins and Jaime Jacobson directed The Last Artifact, a 2020 documentary film. Released in July 2020, it runs 60 minutes.

Miriam Margolyes plays Narrator (UK version). Written by Ed Watkins and Stefanie Watkins.

Shelv files it under physics and science knowledge. In the United States it streams on Magellan TV.