The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

"The camera is magic"

Jun 30 2017 R 1h 16m
Documentary

Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years, she captured the “surfaces” of those who visited her studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside tour of her backyard archive.

Plot

Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the "surfaces" of those who visited her Cambridge, Massachusetts studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside tour of her backyard archive.

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Directed by

Errol Morris

Cast

Elsa Dorfman, Jorge Luis Borges, Bob Dylan

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Fourth Floor Productions, Neon, Moxie Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

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Trailers
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography Trailer #1 (2017) | Movieclips Indie
Featurettes
NYFF Soft Focus: Errol Morris
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