Instant Dreams

Instant Dreams (2017)

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.

Дата выхода
2017-12-14
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (15)
Длительность
1 ч 31 мин
Жанры
документальный
Режиссёр
Willem Baptist

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Интересные факты

Instant Dreams is a 2017 documentary directed by Dutch director Willem Baptist. It premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 18 November 2017 where it screened at Tuschinski Amsterdam in the Dutch Documentary Competition and First Appearance Competition. On 14 December 2017 the film was theatrically released in the Netherlands and Belgium. Slamdance Film Festival hosted the American festival premiere on 21 January 2018 in Park City, Utah. April 2019 the film was theatrical released in the US and Canada, starting with select screenings in New York and Los Angeles.

Background

In 2016, Impossible Magazine reported that Baptist was shooting a documentary, titled Instant Dreams, in Berlin and California. In an interview with Dutch newspaper Trouw, Baptist said his lively dreams were a source of inspiration in making the documentary.

The documentary was shot in multiple locations: Twentynine Palms, New York City, Berlin, Tokyo, Düsseldorf and at the factory of Polaroid Originals in Enschede on different Arri Alexa camera's at 2K and 4K resolution. The aspect-ratio is 2.39:1 cinemascope.

Christopher Bonanos wrote about his experiences in participating in the film in an article on Vulture.com titled "How My Son and I Ended Up in a Film About Film." In the article he describes the demanding shooting schedule.

In 2018 Variety reported that Synergetic Distribution, ahead of Instant Dream's New York festival premiere at Doc NYC, acquired the U.S. rights and were planning a 2019 theatrical release. In April 2019 the film was theatrical released in the US and Canada, starting with select screenings in New York and Los Angeles.

For the American release the tag line was changed from "An Extraordinary Polaroid Trip" to "The Lost Chemistry of Dr. Land".

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