Friday, March 27, 2026 | 6:00 PM
📍 Uncanny Art House | 106 E Main St, Norman, OK

This intimate documentary offers a thoughtful portrait of photographer Elsa Dorfman, reflecting on her fifty-year career behind the camera. Filmed after her retirement, the documentary follows Dorfman as she revisits her archive, sharing personal stories and artistic insights tied to the images she created.

Best known for her large-format Polaroid portraits, Dorfman photographed writers, artists, and cultural figures including Allen Ginsberg, Anaïs Nin, W. H. Auden, Audre Lorde, and Anne Sexton, along with countless families and friends. The film explores her early black-and-white work, her connections to the Beat literary scene, and her deep love for the 20x24 Polaroid camera, one of only a handful ever produced.

Through humor, memory, and reflection, The B-Side becomes not only a study of photography, but a meditation on time, friendship, loss, and the meaning of making images.

This screening continues our 4th Friday Film series, highlighting artists and filmmakers whose work explores process, identity, and creative life.

About 4th friday films

4th Friday Films is a film screening series in partnership with Pioneer Library System and Uncanny Art House to bring educational screenings and films to downtown Norman, Oklahoma. The films we screen are based on the current exhibition and are free and open to the public with a discussion following each each showing.

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