Instant Dreams is an upcoming documentary film about the rise, fall, and rebirth of the Polaroid photo. Here’s the 2-minute official trailer of this visually stunning film.
Directed by Dutch filmmaker Willem Baptist, the 91-minute documentary will be holding its world premiere on November 18th at IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), the world’s largest documentary film festival.
Here’s the synopsis:
There could hardly be a more telling contrast between the analog and digital eras than the beautifully blurry memories captured in a Polaroid picture and the thousands of pin-sharp photos on an iPhone. In this ambitious visual essay, Willem Baptist explores the visionary genius of Edwin H. Land, the inventor of the Polaroid camera. Even today, all sorts of people are keeping his instant dream alive. Former Polaroid employee Stephen Herchen moved from the United States to Europe to work in a laboratory developing the 2.0 version of Polaroid. Christopher Bonanos, the author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid, tells us, “When I heard Polaroid would stop making film, it felt like a close friend had died.” Artist Stefanie Schneider, who is working with the last of her stock of Polaroid film, is using the blurring that occurs with expired film as an additional aesthetic layer in her photographic work. The soundtrack is as evocative as the sometimes hypnotically expressive imagery, with archive footage, interviews and gorgeous chemical reactions crisscrossing paths in a veritable rollercoaster of color and light.
You can follow along with the movie’s Facebook page if you’d like to stay updated on its distribution.
from PetaPixel https://petapixel.com/2017/11/10/instant-dreams-documentary-covers-rise-fall-rebirth-polaroid/
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