The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography — Trailer

source:   bsidefilm.com, yahoo.com

added: Wed, Apr 19th '17

Award-winning documentarian Errol Morris can't seem to resist his fascination with misunderstood eccentrics. The 69-year-old documentary legend, who is perhaps best known for his 1988 death-row doc "The Thin Blue Line" and his 2003 Oscar-winner "The Fog of War," is returning this year with a new character study about his very own neighbor, famed portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman.

In "The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography," Morris sits down with the 78-year-old Massachusetts photographer for a lengthy discussion about her decades-long career as an unconventional portrait artist, who got her first break in the '60s, shooting photos of beat poet-era celebrities like Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan. But lately, Dorfman has been known for working with a large-format (yet now discontinued) Polaroid camera, producing wall-sized portraits.

When asked about the current state of the photography business where "film is no longer available," a disheartened Dorfman looks off camera in the newly released trailer and says, "I tried to deny it. All of the sudden, these cameras -- they're artifacts like ashtrays. And they threw away the most wonderful things."

"The B-Side" premiered to rave reviews at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. It's now slated for a theatrical release on June 2nd.