The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

6.8
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 76 min
  • Premiere: 2017. June 30.

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.

Discover

Allen Ginsberg

Self (archive footage)

W.H. Auden

Self (archive footage)

Joni Mitchell

Self (archive footage)

Bob Dylan

Self (archive footage)

Anaïs Nin

Self (archive footage)

Andrea Dworkin

Self (archive footage)

Andrew Wylie

Self (archive footage)

Victor Bockris

Self (archive footage)

Gail Mazur

Self (archive footage)

Harvey Silverglate

Self (archive footage)

Audre Lorde

Self (archive footage)

Anne Sexton

Self (archive footage)

Peter Orlovsky

Self (archive footage)

Jack Elliott

Self (archive footage)

Ed Sanders

Self (archive footage)

Art

Eugenia Magann Haynes

Art Direction

Crew

Nathan Swingle

Cinematography

Directing

Errol Morris

Director

Editing

Production

Robert Fernandez

Executive Producer

Jesse Wann

Co-Producer

Julia Sheehan

Executive Producer

Molly Rokosz

Associate Producer

Angela Minuty

Line Producer

Sound

Joel Dougherty

Supervising Sound Editor

Nick Pavey

Sound Effects Editor

Cameron Steenhagen

Dialogue Editor

Paul Leonard-Morgan

Original Music Composer

Art

Eugenia Magann Haynes

Art Direction

Crew

Nathan Swingle

Cinematography

Directing

Errol Morris

Director

Editing

Production

Robert Fernandez

Executive Producer

Jesse Wann

Co-Producer

Julia Sheehan

Executive Producer

Molly Rokosz

Associate Producer

Angela Minuty

Line Producer

Sound

Joel Dougherty

Supervising Sound Editor

Nick Pavey

Sound Effects Editor

Cameron Steenhagen

Dialogue Editor

Paul Leonard-Morgan

Original Music Composer