Instant Dreams

2017

Documentary / Drama / Sci-Fi

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 71% · 17 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 88%
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 1193 1.2K

photography polaroid analog

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Willem Baptist Photo
Willem Baptist

Top cast

Udo Kier Photo
Udo Kier as Self
Caitlin Fowler Photo
Caitlin Fowler as Self - The model
Angela Riccio Photo
Angela Riccio as Self - The model
Stefanie Schneider Photo
Stefanie Schneider as Self - The artist
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1 hr 31 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 9 / 10

A hypnotic almost spiritual doc, that feels like

A hypnotic almost spiritual doc, that feels like a marriage between 2001 a Space Odyssey and a Werner Herzog documentary. Riveting, unsettling and joyous at the same time. A real gem.
Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

Saw it. Loved it. Took out the old

Saw it. Loved it. Took out the old camera. Enjoyed my day.
Reviewed by john s 7 / 10

ROID RAGE This is a documentary about Polaroid

ROID RAGE This is a documentary about Polaroid instant film. Might not be so obvious, but really, it really is. Falling asleep halfway through does not diminish said proclamation. Might require several viewings (as was the case) and multiple strong coffees, but "Instant Dreams" tells (kinda) the story of the revolutionary film process (well, until digital made everything obsolete) that swept the nation, nay the world. Telling the tale in a bizarre, seemingly unrelated fork paths, this flick follows oddball folks as they expound on the virtues of not waiting a week to see their snaps, plus a love for the stupendous superiority of blurry, colour challenged shots. Folks covet their Polaroids. And now when the "back to analogue" scam, er, movement has convinced hipsters to buy vinyl records at $40 a pop, the resurgence of expensive old school photographs is a thing. Ramping up the quirk factor, is an oddly menacing, purply hued conspiratorial style doc within this doc, about mysterious science genius and Polaroid founder Edwin H. Land. In some rare, creepy, but in a cool X-Files way footage, he basically predicts the iPhone by taking out a dark object, faking/taking a picture with it, and making a claim that it will store all your information. Edwin H. Land passed in 1991. Is this for real? Is this like the moon landing? Who knows? Not me. But clearly a full blown documentary on Edwin H. Land is deserving, if not a ninety hour PBS project by Ken Burns. Filled with weird, psychedelic interludes (the staying awake challenge), there's a "Space Odyssey: 2001" vibe going on here. As in, there's something way bigger than physical photos at play here. Or maybe not. I loved "Instant Dreams", all three times, perhaps for the wrong reasons, but there you have it. Snap snap snap. - hipCRANK
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