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Instant Dreams poster
Trailer
Instant Dreams
7.1
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1h 31m
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2017
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Released
Overview
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.

Cast
Stephen Herchen poster
Stephen Herchen
Himself - The Scientist
Stefanie Schneider poster
Stefanie Schneider
Herself - The Artist
Christopher Bonanos poster
Christopher Bonanos
Himself - The Writer
Caitlin Fowler poster
Caitlin Fowler
Herself - The Model
Udo Kier poster
Udo Kier
The Docter (Cameo)
Edwin H. Land poster
Edwin H. Land
Himself - The visionary (archive footage)
Ayana J.J. poster
Ayana J.J.
Herself - The future
Angela Riccio poster
Angela Riccio
Herself - The model

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