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.

Cast

Self
E Elsa Dorfman
Self
Errol Morris
Self (archive footage)
G Gail Mazur
Self (archive footage)
H Harvey Silverglate
Self (archive footage)
A Audre Lorde
Self (archive footage)
A Anne Sexton
Self (archive footage)
P Peter Orlovsky
Self (archive footage)
Jack Elliott
Self (archive footage)
E Ed Sanders
Self (archive footage)
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)
A Andrew Wylie
Self (archive footage)
V Victor Bockris

Crew

Director
Errol Morris
Cinematography
N Nathan Swingle
Executive Producer
R Robert Fernandez
Executive Producer
J Julia Sheehan
Line Producer
A Angela Minuty
Associate Producer
M Molly Rokosz
Co-Producer
J Jesse Wann
Art Direction
E Eugenia Magann Haynes
Supervising Sound Editor
Joel Dougherty
Sound Effects Editor
N Nick Pavey
Dialogue Editor
C Cameron Steenhagen
Visual Effects
S Sean P. Carroll
Original Music Composer
P Paul Leonard-Morgan
Producer
S Steven Hathaway
Editor
S Steven Hathaway