The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (2017)
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.
Director: Errol Morris
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Elsa Dorfman as Self |
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Errol Morris as Self |
| Production | Robert Fernandez | Executive Producer |
| Production | Jesse Wann | Co-Producer |
| Production | Julia Sheehan | Executive Producer |
| Production | Molly Rokosz | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Joel Dougherty | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Visual Effects | Sean P. Carroll | Visual Effects |
| Sound | Nick Pavey | Sound Effects Editor |
| Sound | Cameron Steenhagen | Dialogue Editor |
| Production | Angela Minuty | Line Producer |
| Art | Eugenia Magann Haynes | Art Direction |
| Directing | Errol Morris | Director |
| Crew | Nathan Swingle | Cinematography |
| Sound | Paul Leonard-Morgan | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Steven Hathaway | Producer |
| Editing | Steven Hathaway | Editor |