Episode 604: Instant Dreams / Vision Portraits

Jun 12, 2019

This week we look at documentaries about photography, polaroid film and ways of seeing as we review INSTANT DREAMS and Chris interviews Rodney Evans, the director of VISION PORTRAITS.

Group Review Documentary:

INSTANT DREAMS (2018) / USA (Director: Willem Baptist / Producer: Pieter van Huystee)

Now playing in select theaters nationally and internationally.

Film Featured in Interview Portion:

VISION PORTRAITS (2019) / USA (Director: Rodney Evans / Producers: Rodney Evans, H. Robert Wunder)

Opening in New York on August 9 (at the Metrograph) and in Los Angeles on August 23. 

Other Documentaries Mentioned:

• At Sundance / 1995 (Directors: Michael Almereyda, Amy Hobby)
• The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography / 2017 (Director: Errol Morris)
• Born into Brothels / 2004 (Directors: Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman)
• Brother to Brother / 2004 (Director: Rodney Evans)
• Close to Home / 1998 (Direcor: Rodney Evans)
• Dolphin Lover / 2015 (Director: Kareem Tabsch)
• Don from Lakewood  / 1989 (Directors: Patrick Tierney, Eric Saks)
• Faces Places  / 2017 (Director: Agnes Varda)
• Feminists: What Were They Thinking? / 2018 (Director: Johanna Demetrakas)
• Finding Vivian Maier  / 2014 (Directors: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel)
• General Orders No. 9  / 2009 (Director: Robert Persons)
• The Last Resort  / 2018 (Directors: Dennis Scholl, Kareem Tabsch)
• Plaza de la Soledad  / 2016 (Director: Maya Goded)
• Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project / 2019 (Director: Matt Wolf)
• Salt of the Earth  / 2014 (Directors: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado)
• Social Animals  / 2018 (Director: Jonathan Ignatius Green)
• Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film  / 2012 (Director: Grant Hamilton)

Links to reviews/interview by Christopher Llewellyn Reed:

• Hammer to Nail interview with Rodney Evans of VISION PORTRAITS
• Hammer to Nail review of  VISION PORTRAITS
• Hammer to Nail review of  INSTANT DREAMS

Timestamps:

00:45 - Intro discussion of photography documentaries

15:10 - Group Review of INSTANT DREAMS

29:04 - Chris interviews Rodney Evans of VISION PORTRAITS

48:05 - Doc Talk

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Credits:

Artwork by Hilary Campbell

Intro music by Jeremiah Moore

Editing by Christopher Llewellyn Reed

Transitional music by BELLS (thanks to Christopher Ernst)