A beautiful film. Just when I think RUclips is done - something well worth watching. Great music too. Really optimistic. Too much convenience and comfort leads nowhere. It has no feel. No smell, no taste, no feel...
I needed this. I’ve been stuck for years… coincidentally ever since my transition to digital and never seeming able to keep up. I kept all my analogue cameras, record players, typewriters… sitting in plies needing to be refurbished. This documentary made me cry but also inspire me to take a step back and revisit mostly analogue creative outlets. Thank you for making / sharing.
I can’t express enough gratitude for this inspiring documentary. As a filmmaker who started with film and transitioned to digital, and as a father of four children born in the digital era, I felt a deep sense of nostalgia and connection. I consider myself an “analog man,” and my journey mirrors the doc’s in many ways. Sending my best wishes to Doc and congratulations to the dreamers behind The Impossible Project and the entire film crew for bringing us this incredible testament filled with soul and substance. Thank you all for reminding us of the beauty of analog. 🙏
Absolutely beautiful. Stunningly wonderful experience watching it. I'm 22 years old and only started to get into film photography a year ago. I had little idea why I'm so obsessed with it and it made it so hard to explain it to others when asked. This documentary answers the question elegantly. As someone born in the early 2000s, I still remember those old cameras, speakers, DVD players, etc. that my parents used to own and still have an image of what childhood was like before the internet and iPads took over. Now I’m taking photos using cameras released when my parents were my age and listening to music from the 60s to the 90s. It’s good to know that this is not purely nostalgia. And as someone studying cognitive neuroscience focusing on memory I’d say, no, making everything easier does not make us remember better. It’s the bit of hustle that makes things stay in our minds.
My film camera doesn’t invade my privacy and when I’m done taking a photo it does not try to steal my time and leaves me alone to do what I want when I want, not what advertisers want. Going back to analogue photography has actually freed my life in the long run somehow.
digital cameras dont do any of those things lmao unless youre comparing film cameras to smart phones. which also do not do those things if you are simply taking pictures.
So wrong. My digital camera connects to nothing. With analog, do you scan your images connected to a computer? Do you transfer images to your cellphone? The biggest disadvantage of analog is the time, money and chemicals. I'm done with that. Did that last century. No desire to repeat that. Besides, everywhere you go, a satellite is watching your, every store has cameras, you are being spied on all the time. Do you watch TV? Do you watch RUclips? Guess what, you are digital data to many companies.
I started with analog 12 years ago, collecting , repairing, selling, i have now more than 400 cameras, i only keep highly value ones, but i service and make every camera that i cross, perfect functional, analog cameras are a part of my very soul !
Eine wertvolle, inspirierende, ermutigende Doku! Und erstaunlich, dass das Hotelinventar den jahrzehntelangen Dornröschenschlaf so gut überstanden hat!
Прекрасное видео! Без сомнения, мы Люди - существа аналоговые, наши эмоции, слух, зрение, дыхание - всё АНАЛОГ! Браво авторам и ученым, неравнодушным людям!
Same here, slowly getting my darkroom up and running, now just wish i could get hold of a lomo tank or something to develop 8mm film in Australia without it costing me an arm, leg and possibly a kidney
excellent! as a Hollywood Cinematographer who continues to think in analog, even when forced to shoot digital. I'm glad you spoke to Otto Nemenz. And I could smell the darkroom chemicals. ahhhh. Nice work!!
This was such a wonderful documentary. Myself, like so many others commenting, are walking down their analog road having acknowledged the benefits of the digital age but craving some relief from dependency on it. Doc was inspirational as a dreamer with true passion and was afforded the chance to sink money into projects time and again despite their outcome. The Edwin Land quotes were quite profound.
I had an art exhibit in my local area recently, that featured all analog pieces (small sculptures in walnut, and mixed with brass accents and some paint). I sold half of all I exhibited. It surprised me how many young people were drawn to them, and bought them. Digital work in the same gallery didn't seem as attractive (though there was some very amazing images, still and videos). I think there is a real value in digital work, but for me, the hands on work with analog (the smell of carved wood, the dust, the sounds made working on it, even the physical effort of carving and sanding, etc, makes the whole experience more rewarding for me). I think I'm going to go out and buy a Polaroid camera and film now, and incorporate it, somehow, into my future art projects! Thanks for this really inspiring film!
Film très inspirant! Yes, we should use our more analog technologies so they won’t disappear. This teaches us to appreciate life in general and the importance of taking our time
I'm a analog nerd and I had this bookmarked for a while thinking it was just about some nerd who collected analog gear. Finally got around to watching it and... holy hell... was such an fascinating and often touching documentary. Truly amazed and will be recommending it to others. Love it!
I worked construction back in the 80s we had contracted jobs for Kodak in Boston, we built walls and dug out tunnels, For Pipes and Wires, that was one of the first Plants to be closed, I was a bit confused about Why, in hindsight i now understand, The Digital Age was in its infancy and about to Make an appearance on the world stage. Now i totally get what happened to so many Jobs. Id rather Go back to analog an old school tech. This is leading the world off a cliff.
i ditched investing in digital Photography one year ago completly, doing 35mm and Medium Format now. It feels like waking up of a 20year bad dream. So happy now, the results are touching, connencting, a peace of art. Best thing i did in a while.
i've spent years and years trying to find the ultimate calendar-planning-and-note-taking tool to conquer my inability to get my life organised. a few years back - disillusioned by yet another app - i bought an empty notebook, a black ballpoint pen and a gray text marker. my minimalist bullet journal saved my life, and not only in a figuratively speaking way. i understand now why i often prefer the manual over the mechanised, over the electrified, over the computerised ... it's because of the different senses it triggers. i really enjoyed watching this film.
Such an ispiring film, beautiful watching, close to our hearts the analog experience, we are blessed to have lived in a analog era and since digital, we as many Im sure do spend most of our time immersing ourselves deeply into all things Analog. winning back that feeling, that creativity, that Analog soul ❤
Seeing those cameras being destroyed at 2:40 was hard to watch. As a hobbyist photographer, whole I love my DSLR, I've got a soft spot for 35mm SLR cameras. If it weren't for the high price of film and processing I'd go full SLR. I've never been a fan of smartphones for photography, at least not for me.
The world used to regard Kodak so highly that if it sneezed it was front page news. What a company, treated their workers wonderfully. Now it has gone…….my pension is far far less than planned, replaced by a government lesser pension, and my husband worked there his whole adult life. Even now, don’t expect future financial safety to prevail. The commercial world is ruthless. If the profit isn’t sky high, it won’t last.
Great film! My first job in 1968 was running 3 of the printing presses shown: the "snapper" hand fed letterpress, the proof press, and the Heidelberg Windmill. Back then it was still profitable, and not what it is considered today: a rediscovered art form. After 28 years in the printing trade I saw the internet coming and jumped ship to programming. But I missed working with my hands and took up landscape painting as a side job. We traditional artists create beauty that lives on its own merit long after we're gone. Those cave painters in France 20,000 years ago were onto something. Film, Polaroid Film, Digital cameras and iPhones all have their place in image capture. I feel very blessed to have the old school skills to paint at the easel.
Amazing film, I really loved it, the polaroid pics reminded me of Pearl Jam's No Code... on another note, there are no subtitles when the language is other than English...
Three years since I left digital photography. I sold all my digital equipment. Now i'm taking my first steps into optical printing. Analog is how I feel this life. Digital is something different
I'm glad this documentary exist, for me the analogue is quite a meditation, I've built my home darkroom and it's a place where you can re-appropiate your time, shooting film is good but for me the entire process is the key: film, develop and print. Scanning is obiouvsly helpful to not waste paper but, if you can, please print!
This is an extremely well done film, with a lot of heart and soul. I'm amazed being in the documentary world AND analog world for so long, that I haven't heard about it until now. Big thumbs up and I'm so happy it's available here for everyone to see. Thanks for posting!
At night I spend several hours watching utube videos because: 1) they are entertaining and informative; 2) I don't watch tv; 3) I have nobody to talk to.
A very enjoyable thought provoking documentary. One of my hobbies is photography and from staring with a Zenith E, I owned many Nikon professional 35mm and digital cameras. Having recently been shooting 35mm film on a Nikon F3, picking up my state of art Nikon Z9 last week made me realise how the whole experience is more immersive and satisfying using an analogue camera.
Wow, thank you for making this film. Work of art and i could "smell" it too! I started my own way back into analog before the Pandemic hit us, and it was a joy to make that journey again, to start shooting film and explore older cameras and lenses as well. But as you talk about a lot in this film, all things analog are worth preserving and using. So besides taking up film photography and developing my own film again, i always kept on using my record player and playing my Vinyl records on there. Reading books, writing etc. Love it, the feel, the smell, even the taste ;) Long live Analog!
I just love things tangible - been shooting film since 2009 and am making Black and White slides in my bathroom, throwing old-school slideshows, but better - with curated work from places often visisted, but rarely ever seen :) Digital is a nice productivity tool, but Soul craves the physical to engage all our senses!
As a middle aged analog guy who never left it, this film leaves me with very mixed feelings. I saw this coming in the 1990s, perhaps before anyone recognized what was being lost, and I remember begging people to just respect (let alone love) Kodachrome (and Polaroid) as I did. No one listened. While I am overjoyed analog is being rescued, respected, cherished, and discovered by young people, this doc leaves me cold: It positions the whole thing as yet another play thing of the privileged class. Not enough time spent on the nitty gritty, barely a nod to the work of artists, far too much fashion, cult-of-personality, and wine tasting. Shallow in the extreme.
So it was not a documentary of lead up to the sad demolitions and wind-down of Polaroid and Kodak. Museums are wonderful, 'necessary' indulgences. Treasure goes there. The public can only see most such things at museum or in book. At least Impossible/Polaroid is accessible living 'treasure'.. The insiders will always have their parties.
Mayby that's another story to be told. Like my now deceased husband who was a reprografic artis, who did not follow the development, but thank God let me work with his drawings, which I now print on my textiles using silkscreens.
Good evening, I have a story to tell you. I was in Paris in 1979 in a tourist spot. I saw a Japanese couple with a Polaroid. I suggested to the couple to take a picture of them. The gentleman confidently handed me the camera, I took the photo, he looked at the result and told me it was not the simplest camera in the world... contrary to what the Polaroid campaign announced 😉 I am happy to tell you about it.
Sooooo great to find finally this documentary on YT, From its premier i was looking for it, i heard it was only be showed on film shows, highly appreciated the work of this channel, you have a brand new follower ❤️, lets admire analog things again! Love to everyone from Mexico
@@Kolonihaven-vj7xw it is magical that every single comment within this section is full of admiration, nostalgia and too much love, something good is still alive!
What is really sad is that out of all the insta films the fuji fp 100c got discontinued :( it was a stable and super sharp instant film . still have my Polaroid 600 SE with a Mamiya lens , I type films are just too soft looking . I even had Polaroid backs on my Pentax 6x7
For your next videos experiment: For the next 30 days practice all still photography only with a film camera hand process prints all photos, digitize only for delivery purpose.
Please give the release dates of the videos you publish. It is important so that we can put what we see in context. Thank you for sharing. This was released in 2021, apparently.
I watched this a while back on a different channel. However... This channel has 5.49M subscribers, this video has 61K views in 7 days and 2.1K likes. This video has more likes than the previous video I watched, had total views in the same time. So let's not be too critical. 😁
What a beautiful documentary. I love this film a lot. There are lots of elements that I can relate to as a cinematographer, analog lover shooting half frame, full frame, medium format and large format. I have an old Polaroid camera. Gotta take it down from the shelf and shoot some polaroid soon:) Great work guys
Thank you for sharing this documentary with me. It’s one of the most inspiring stories I’ve seen in all my years of searching for things on RUclips. And a thank you to Doc. As I sit down to write in my new Blackwing Slate (A5) with a pearl pencil.
@@vacuumandgaspressurecoexisting I get it but that has to do with peoples tastes and abilities to process digital photos. It's not the mediums fault if people don't learn to use it. But I get it, it is harder and takes more time to learn and doesn't give you immediat satisfaction. That's not for everybody. If that's you then, maybe analog is for you. But there are many upsides to digital. People want the analog result in digital form immediatly, but that's not how digital should be approached. Digital is a blank slate that you can take a picture with and morph the image into what ever you want. Digital is more high resolution than analog. So the way to get the analog result is actually to degrade the quality of the image or audio or what ever. Because even if the most beautiful old photos taken look gorgeous, they still are lower resolution than digital.
I don't think it's about disliking digital. It's more about liking analog. It's all about options and having the possibility of experiencing tangible media, both in creation and for later enjoyment. I've taken many pictures, both digital and analog, and there is nothing wrong with the digital ones, but nothing fills me with joy like the darkroom prints I've meticulously created from my favorite film shots.
Mankind use to build pyramids And now struggles to move such large rocks We put 12 men on the moon And struggle to repeat the achievement 50 years later We developed instant film And forgot the chemical recipe We take two small steps forward And then one back We used to love the Truth And exchanged it for a lie More than machinery we need humanity.
I used to spend Toooo much time but Now Very Very Little,The Whole World Is Upside Down Inside Out,Pure Evil,Just Truth And Documentaries Lately.God bless everyone 🙏
Something doesn't sit right with me that Polaroid abandoned their factories and their people and then came crawling back after a group of very dedicated people kept the business alive.
To be honest, Polaroid the company is long gone.. The brandname Polaroid (and other assets) was acquired by another company and eventually were acquired by an investment fund (the one from mr. Smolokowski in the documentary) that owned The Impossible Project, so the name Polaroid could again be linked to a company that makes filmpacks and cameras that are compatible with the old Polaroid products. But the original Polaroid company dissapeared when they went bankrupt in 2001.
Очень крутой фильм. С удовольствием посмотрел и убеждаюсь, что сегодня старые технологии пересмотрены и люди хотят сохранить лучшее.
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Lets talk about the waste of analogue. What happens when it needs repair or consider at some point it goes into landfill. I too grew up in an analogue world but it's just not cost effective to stock and maintain the parts needed. They were great for their time but that is now over, unfortunately.
Simply amazing. PS: I am gonna order Polaroid 600 film although I find it a bit expensive. You ´bought´ me with this f...... documentary. Looks like passion beats reason. Time to dust off my Polaroid Impulse. A birdie told me about new Polaroid camera on the horizon... Take care & prosper.
Too neat. I hope we can get back ImPossible (Polaroid) film for my ImPossible (Polaroid) film back for my Mamyia RZ67. What about the chemical formula Kodak had for their Kodak ColorBurst camera that Polaroid sued for? My Mom loved her Kodak ColorBurst camera.
i am kind of in my own analog journey, little steps. i just cant take it anymore. my eyes are bleeding from staring at all those screens every day of the week, i encounter constant errors that need fixing or workarounds due to digitalization, everything is overly complicated and take up more time and my brain cant even process half of it anymore because the time it takes to learn and understand one new thing, there are already 10 other new things released. what am i? a robot? a humans capacity is limited. i m only 35 and i cant even handle things anymore. early 2000 was such a simple living and chill time in comparison. my personal life is now mostly analog for the most part. enjoying music, hifi and speakers and some jazz and getting into vinyl and i do photography (i use a modern mirrorless) but i am exclusively using old vintage glass with it because i prefer the experience, i collect plants, i have an aquarium and a terarium to take care of. i dont own a tv or stuff like that. 90% of the stuff i buy, i buy it used too, so many nice old furniture pieces around people give away for free even to replace them with some ikea crap. and the world is keep pushing this digitalization bullshit... and the more they do the less actually works, the more unreliable and complicated everything is and the less i want to be a part of it
I started in the analog world. B&W film and prints using Kodak system and Ansel Adams Zone System, shooting weddings assisting a top pro Monte Zucker then working at National Geographic reproducing photos and 4/C map relief with halftone contract screens and litho film. I started shooting with digital and editing in Photoshop in 1994 and posting my photos on a web server I managed and it was liberating. YMMV and surely does if your initial experience was on digital cameras. Shooting with film seems like it more artistic, just as in the days shooting film it felt more artistic if you lugged around a 4x5 or 8x10 view camera on a 20 pound tripod instead of a pair of Nikon Fs like I did. The irony is that 99% of the people who now use film then scan their negatives digitally then edit in Photoshop. In analog with the Zone System getting scene range to match print range was just the boring technical part. The artistry and editorialize happen in the darkroom doing hand puppet dodging and burning on the print.
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A beautiful film. Just when I think RUclips is done - something well worth watching. Great music too. Really optimistic. Too much convenience and comfort leads nowhere. It has no feel. No smell, no taste, no feel...
I needed this. I’ve been stuck for years… coincidentally ever since my transition to digital and never seeming able to keep up.
I kept all my analogue cameras, record players, typewriters… sitting in plies needing to be refurbished. This documentary made me cry but also inspire me to take a step back and revisit mostly analogue creative outlets.
Thank you for making / sharing.
I can’t express enough gratitude for this inspiring documentary. As a filmmaker who started with film and transitioned to digital, and as a father of four children born in the digital era, I felt a deep sense of nostalgia and connection. I consider myself an “analog man,” and my journey mirrors the doc’s in many ways. Sending my best wishes to Doc and congratulations to the dreamers behind The Impossible Project and the entire film crew for bringing us this incredible testament filled with soul and substance. Thank you all for reminding us of the beauty of analog. 🙏
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Absolutely beautiful. Stunningly wonderful experience watching it. I'm 22 years old and only started to get into film photography a year ago. I had little idea why I'm so obsessed with it and it made it so hard to explain it to others when asked. This documentary answers the question elegantly.
As someone born in the early 2000s, I still remember those old cameras, speakers, DVD players, etc. that my parents used to own and still have an image of what childhood was like before the internet and iPads took over. Now I’m taking photos using cameras released when my parents were my age and listening to music from the 60s to the 90s. It’s good to know that this is not purely nostalgia.
And as someone studying cognitive neuroscience focusing on memory I’d say, no, making everything easier does not make us remember better. It’s the bit of hustle that makes things stay in our minds.
when you develop your own film, make slides and show them on the wall, you'll be thrilled in a way that no digital can thrill you.
My film camera doesn’t invade my privacy and when I’m done taking a photo it does not try to steal my time and leaves me alone to do what I want when I want, not what advertisers want.
Going back to analogue photography has actually freed my life in the long run somehow.
digital cameras dont do any of those things lmao unless youre comparing film cameras to smart phones. which also do not do those things if you are simply taking pictures.
Neither do digital cameras, you know... I shoot both film and digital
So wrong. My digital camera connects to nothing.
With analog, do you scan your images connected to a computer? Do you transfer images to your cellphone?
The biggest disadvantage of analog is the time, money and chemicals. I'm done with that. Did that last century. No desire to repeat that.
Besides, everywhere you go, a satellite is watching your, every store has cameras, you are being spied on all the time. Do you watch TV? Do you watch RUclips? Guess what, you are digital data to many companies.
@@bondgabebond4907 blar blar blar , as boring as digitial ..
@@Grumpygrumpothey actually do though a
I started with analog 12 years ago, collecting , repairing, selling, i have now more than 400 cameras, i only keep highly value ones, but i service and make every camera that i cross, perfect functional, analog cameras are a part of my very soul !
Eine wertvolle, inspirierende, ermutigende Doku!
Und erstaunlich, dass das Hotelinventar den jahrzehntelangen Dornröschenschlaf so gut überstanden hat!
Прекрасное видео! Без сомнения, мы Люди - существа аналоговые, наши эмоции, слух, зрение, дыхание - всё АНАЛОГ! Браво авторам и ученым, неравнодушным людям!
What a fantastic documentary. I'm on my own analog path and that documentary inspires me even more that I'm doing something right.
analog is more reliable and definitely more secure.
Same here, slowly getting my darkroom up and running, now just wish i could get hold of a lomo tank or something to develop 8mm film in Australia without it costing me an arm, leg and possibly a kidney
excellent! as a Hollywood Cinematographer who continues to think in analog, even when forced to shoot digital. I'm glad you spoke to Otto Nemenz. And I could smell the darkroom chemicals. ahhhh. Nice work!!
Прекрасный фильм, великолепный! Благодаря людям, которые любят то, что делают, и то, во что верят мы, и имеем всё то, что нас сейчас окружает.
Tears were in my eyes when Doc was alone on carousal .Wonderful documentary it taught me so many life lessons.
This was such a wonderful documentary. Myself, like so many others commenting, are walking down their analog road having acknowledged the benefits of the digital age but craving some relief from dependency on it. Doc was inspirational as a dreamer with true passion and was afforded the chance to sink money into projects time and again despite their outcome. The Edwin Land quotes were quite profound.
行き過ぎたデジタルは人々の仕事を奪い、怠惰にさせ、そして魂さえも奪ってしまいます。
素晴らしい動画をありがとうございました。
Beautiful comment!
One good thing about digital you can type in a different language and google will translate it for me 😀
@@mumandtwinsまさにあなたの言う通りで、人々は言語を学ばなくなり、通訳の仕事も無くなるでしょうね。
しかしGoogle翻訳は非常に便利な機能に違いありません。
I had an art exhibit in my local area recently, that featured all analog pieces (small sculptures in walnut, and mixed with brass accents and some paint). I sold half of all I exhibited. It surprised me how many young people were drawn to them, and bought them. Digital work in the same gallery didn't seem as attractive (though there was some very amazing images, still and videos). I think there is a real value in digital work, but for me, the hands on work with analog (the smell of carved wood, the dust, the sounds made working on it, even the physical effort of carving and sanding, etc, makes the whole experience more rewarding for me).
I think I'm going to go out and buy a Polaroid camera and film now, and incorporate it, somehow, into my future art projects! Thanks for this really inspiring film!
Love this idea
Sounds interesting. Just tried to search for and insta with you name, but no luck. I have a shop where I sell art, sew etc.
@@Kolonihaven-vj7xw Thanks!
I’m speechless 😮
This a masterpiece and the choice of music, so ethereal. And many many respect to Doc, he’s a genius!
So wahr, was hier so gesaht wird!! Analog ist Gefühl, authentisch, ist sinnlich.....
Film très inspirant! Yes, we should use our more analog technologies so they won’t disappear. This teaches us to appreciate life in general and the importance of taking our time
I'm a analog nerd and I had this bookmarked for a while thinking it was just about some nerd who collected analog gear. Finally got around to watching it and... holy hell... was such an fascinating and often touching documentary. Truly amazed and will be recommending it to others. Love it!
Wow! Fun documentary! I wondering what the story was of Impossible and now Polaroid. Wish this had English subtitles for the German and Italian parts.
フィルムカメラの良さは知っています。
現像をしてフィルムから浮き上がる映像を見て一喜一憂した時代は楽しいものでした。
しかし、24枚や36枚の制限の中で涙を飲んだシャッターチャンスがどれだけあったことか。
デジタルカメラになってシャッターが軽くなってしまったと考えることはありますが、機会としてのシャッターが壊れるほどに撮影できる事は幸せだと思います。
ただ、フィルムカメラを通してシャッターの重みを知ることはとても大切なことだと思います。
一回のシャッターに魂を込めたあの時代を忘れたくはありません。
I worked construction back in the 80s we had contracted jobs for Kodak in Boston, we built walls and dug out tunnels, For Pipes and Wires, that was one of the first Plants to be closed, I was a bit confused about Why, in hindsight i now understand, The Digital Age was in its infancy and about to Make an appearance on the world stage. Now i totally get what happened to so many Jobs. Id rather Go back to analog an old school tech. This is leading the world off a cliff.
It is right in our faces, and the majority still won't or can't se it.
i ditched investing in digital Photography one year ago completly, doing 35mm and Medium Format now. It feels like waking up of a 20year bad dream. So happy now, the results are touching, connencting, a peace of art. Best thing i did in a while.
i've spent years and years trying to find the ultimate calendar-planning-and-note-taking tool to conquer my inability to get my life organised. a few years back - disillusioned by yet another app - i bought an empty notebook, a black ballpoint pen and a gray text marker. my minimalist bullet journal saved my life, and not only in a figuratively speaking way. i understand now why i often prefer the manual over the mechanised, over the electrified, over the computerised ... it's because of the different senses it triggers. i really enjoyed watching this film.
tutorial moment plz
One of the best programmes I’ve seen in a long long time. Doc is an inspiration. The geniuses are always held back and then missed when gone. ❤
I too got sad when he was sitting in the carousel after the big reunion party where he wasn't invited.
Superbe documentaire. Parfait un dimanche après-midi 😊
A beautiful documentary. Beautiful cinematography!
That is the best one and a half hours I have spent in a long long time, thank you.
Saaaame. I didn’t look at my phone once! This was so inspirational, just wow
same. truly remarkable and inspiring
Brilliant
Such an ispiring film, beautiful watching, close to our hearts the analog experience, we are blessed to have lived in a analog era and since digital, we as many Im sure do spend most of our time immersing ourselves deeply into all things Analog. winning back that feeling, that creativity, that Analog soul ❤
Seeing those cameras being destroyed at 2:40 was hard to watch. As a hobbyist photographer, whole I love my DSLR, I've got a soft spot for 35mm SLR cameras. If it weren't for the high price of film and processing I'd go full SLR. I've never been a fan of smartphones for photography, at least not for me.
The world used to regard Kodak so highly that if it sneezed it was front page news. What a company, treated their workers wonderfully. Now it has gone…….my pension is far far less than planned, replaced by a government lesser pension, and my husband worked there his whole adult life. Even now, don’t expect future financial safety to prevail. The commercial world is ruthless. If the profit isn’t sky high, it won’t last.
I hope a lot of things are changing for the better in the futur.
Imagine when Apple dies? And they will. As will Meta etc. they all pass
Great film! My first job in 1968 was running 3 of the printing presses shown: the "snapper" hand fed letterpress, the proof press, and the Heidelberg Windmill. Back then it was still profitable, and not what it is considered today: a rediscovered art form. After 28 years in the printing trade I saw the internet coming and jumped ship to programming. But I missed working with my hands and took up landscape painting as a side job. We traditional artists create beauty that lives on its own merit long after we're gone. Those cave painters in France 20,000 years ago were onto something. Film, Polaroid Film, Digital cameras and iPhones all have their place in image capture. I feel very blessed to have the old school skills to paint at the easel.
Polaroid photography is awesome!! I bought a camera and film from Impossible years ago and it's with me almost everywhere I go.
That was really something!! All around and that last song with the Camera work was impactful. Thank you
Mayby you are buying the lp?
First time in 15 years I have heard "sustainable company" used in the correct way.
Amazing film, I really loved it, the polaroid pics reminded me of Pearl Jam's No Code... on another note, there are no subtitles when the language is other than English...
yeah that's right, funny no one has mentioned that in the comments. But true that also struck me.
a friend sent this to me and i absolutely loved it. Doc is so inspiring. thank you for telling this story, i had no idea!
Three years since I left digital photography. I sold all my digital equipment. Now i'm taking my first steps into optical printing. Analog is how I feel this life. Digital is something different
It is only about how you feel and not about how it works.
Digital is not bad, you just try to find something you'd be satisfied with.
Its human nature
I'm glad this documentary exist, for me the analogue is quite a meditation, I've built my home darkroom and it's a place where you can re-appropiate your time, shooting film is good but for me the entire process is the key: film, develop and print.
Scanning is obiouvsly helpful to not waste paper but, if you can, please print!
Wonderful documentary.Makes you think.Thanks a lot.May God bless you.Wishing the best of luck in your project.
An analogue is a reflection, and a figure is an interpretation of reality!
Well said
Ah! I’ve got work to do and this gorgeous doco pops up on my feed. Work can wait!😂
This is an extremely well done film, with a lot of heart and soul. I'm amazed being in the documentary world AND analog world for so long, that I haven't heard about it until now. Big thumbs up and I'm so happy it's available here for everyone to see. Thanks for posting!
I'm part of making my personal world as more analogue as possible. My photography is 80-20 analog.
Thank you for this documentary!! I'm ,,old fashion"!!🤗 I love my vinyl and my analog cameras, and the nice Polaroids (SX-70 Film)!!😍😍
23:23 THAT’S who’s started Geocities? Love it.
At night I spend several hours watching utube videos because: 1) they are entertaining and informative; 2) I don't watch tv; 3) I have nobody to talk to.
Vielen Dank für diese Dokumentation. Ich bin inspiriert und liebe Film. ❤
hermoso documental, me encanta las cosas analógicas , lo físico.
A very enjoyable thought provoking documentary. One of my hobbies is photography and from staring with a Zenith E, I owned many Nikon professional 35mm and digital cameras. Having recently been shooting 35mm film on a Nikon F3, picking up my state of art Nikon Z9 last week made me realise how the whole experience is more immersive and satisfying using an analogue camera.
Wow, thank you for making this film. Work of art and i could "smell" it too!
I started my own way back into analog before the Pandemic hit us, and it was a joy to make that journey again, to start shooting film and explore older cameras and lenses as well.
But as you talk about a lot in this film, all things analog are worth preserving and using. So besides taking up film photography and developing my own film again, i always kept on using my record player and playing my Vinyl records on there.
Reading books, writing etc. Love it, the feel, the smell, even the taste ;)
Long live Analog!
so are you getting the record too?
@@Kolonihaven-vj7xw which record :)? or you mean the machine i the documentary ( jukebox ) lol?
Łezka w oku się pojawiła... analogowa! Ami, Smiena, Zenit to było żywe i piękne.
The best, most uplifting thing that I will watch today! Thanks.
today! You must have enough to watch then. I almost said it was the best of the year.
It made me feel inspired.... instantly 😅I open my Laptop and start creating...THANKS...I love your production..❤
*Immense thanks to the creator, director of this passionate documentary: Jens Muerer*
Such inspiration of a human DOC!!!! The 🌎 need more Docs❤❤❤❤❤
What a fabulous film. Outstanding work from all involved 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
What a great little doc - and Doc, thank god people like you exist!
To watch this documentary was my gift for today.
hear, hear!!
Digital is for fun
Film is forever🌿
И для общения, раньше мы не могли общаться, как сейчас, а теперь аналоговое очень дорого, всё разрушили. Деньги решают всё
I just love things tangible - been shooting film since 2009 and am making Black and White slides in my bathroom, throwing old-school slideshows, but better - with curated work from places often visisted, but rarely ever seen :)
Digital is a nice productivity tool, but Soul craves the physical to engage all our senses!
This is a beautiful project 😍
...echt super gemacht ! Hier kommt das zwischenmenschliche richtig zutage....
Not inviting Doc on the rebranding event is very shameless..
I started to cry when he was sitting there in the carousel.
@@Kolonihaven-vj7xw yeah same
@noandneuron we are deep down just the same, but our upbringing has made it challenging to connect.
Indeed. Don't know the inner workings, but it seemed shitty.
Really, that was not expected from Oskar!
As a middle aged analog guy who never left it, this film leaves me with very mixed feelings. I saw this coming in the 1990s, perhaps before anyone recognized what was being lost, and I remember begging people to just respect (let alone love) Kodachrome (and Polaroid) as I did. No one listened. While I am overjoyed analog is being rescued, respected, cherished, and discovered by young people, this doc leaves me cold: It positions the whole thing as yet another play thing of the privileged class. Not enough time spent on the nitty gritty, barely a nod to the work of artists, far too much fashion, cult-of-personality, and wine tasting. Shallow in the extreme.
Totally get where you are coming from.
@@TimGreigPhotography good observation.
So it was not a documentary of lead up to the sad demolitions and wind-down of Polaroid and Kodak.
Museums are wonderful, 'necessary' indulgences. Treasure goes there. The public can only see most such things at museum or in book. At least Impossible/Polaroid is accessible living 'treasure'.. The insiders will always have their parties.
Mayby that's another story to be told. Like my now deceased husband who was a reprografic artis, who did not follow the development, but thank God let me work with his drawings, which I now print on my textiles using silkscreens.
+1, too much analogue fetishism, not enough actual photohraphy
Good evening, I have a story to tell you. I was in Paris in 1979 in a tourist spot. I saw a Japanese couple with a Polaroid. I suggested to the couple to take a picture of them. The gentleman confidently handed me the camera, I took the photo, he looked at the result and told me it was not the simplest camera in the world... contrary to what the Polaroid campaign announced 😉 I am happy to tell you about it.
Was he kindly saying your photo skills were shit!?
@@newtronix that was the 1979 way of saying what you in 2024 is saying yes.
@@Kolonihaven-vj7xw Haha they were gentler days back then!
Sooooo great to find finally this documentary on YT, From its premier i was looking for it, i heard it was only be showed on film shows, highly appreciated the work of this channel, you have a brand new follower ❤️, lets admire analog things again! Love to everyone from Mexico
I just saw it today because I got curious of a friends comment on fb. And by God I am glad. Love back from Copenhagen.
@@Kolonihaven-vj7xw it is magical that every single comment within this section is full of admiration, nostalgia and too much love, something good is still alive!
A wonderful movie! I’m so glad that there are people like this!
What is really sad is that out of all the insta films the fuji fp 100c got discontinued :( it was a stable and super sharp instant film . still have my Polaroid 600 SE with a Mamiya lens , I type films are just too soft looking . I even had Polaroid backs on my Pentax 6x7
For your next videos experiment: For the next 30 days practice all still photography only with a film camera hand process prints all photos, digitize only for delivery purpose.
Beautiful film. Doc is a special person, that radiates throughout
Please give the release dates of the videos you publish. It is important so that we can put what we see in context. Thank you for sharing. This was released in 2021, apparently.
I watched this a while back on a different channel. However... This channel has 5.49M subscribers, this video has 61K views in 7 days and 2.1K likes.
This video has more likes than the previous video I watched, had total views in the same time. So let's not be too critical. 😁
What a beautiful documentary. I love this film a lot. There are lots of elements that I can relate to as a cinematographer, analog lover shooting half frame, full frame, medium format and large format. I have an old Polaroid camera. Gotta take it down from the shelf and shoot some polaroid soon:) Great work guys
Thank you for sharing this documentary with me. It’s one of the most inspiring stories I’ve seen in all my years of searching for things on RUclips. And a thank you to Doc. As I sit down to write in my new Blackwing Slate (A5) with a pearl pencil.
I feel you so much. In a moment I too must put down word in my analog diary.
5.7 million subs and just 5.9k likes ? A great documentary in recent times. Thanks for publishing.
Beautifully done! A mysterious joy to watch.
Such a fabulous story - very inspirational. I have a Moleskin diary and a vinyl record collection - all I need now os a new Polaroid camera.
I don't dislike digital, i just dislike staged, over-processed and fake stuff.
What are you even talking about? 😂
@@bluenick4577 learn how to read
@@vacuumandgaspressurecoexisting I get it but that has to do with peoples tastes and abilities to process digital photos. It's not the mediums fault if people don't learn to use it. But I get it, it is harder and takes more time to learn and doesn't give you immediat satisfaction. That's not for everybody. If that's you then, maybe analog is for you. But there are many upsides to digital.
People want the analog result in digital form immediatly, but that's not how digital should be approached. Digital is a blank slate that you can take a picture with and morph the image into what ever you want. Digital is more high resolution than analog. So the way to get the analog result is actually to degrade the quality of the image or audio or what ever. Because even if the most beautiful old photos taken look gorgeous, they still are lower resolution than digital.
Digital is already over processed. The engineers decide what technically is right or wrong.
I don't think it's about disliking digital. It's more about liking analog. It's all about options and having the possibility of experiencing tangible media, both in creation and for later enjoyment.
I've taken many pictures, both digital and analog, and there is nothing wrong with the digital ones, but nothing fills me with joy like the darkroom prints I've meticulously created from my favorite film shots.
This was a wonderful documentary. Inspirational and uplifting as well as the music selection. I love it. Thank you.
Ein absolut fantastischer Film.Bravo!
Mankind use to build pyramids
And now struggles to move such large rocks
We put 12 men on the moon
And struggle to repeat the achievement 50 years later
We developed instant film
And forgot the chemical recipe
We take two small steps forward
And then one back
We used to love the Truth
And exchanged it for a lie
More than machinery we need humanity.
Superb. Heartening. Loved every second.
Bring back the Magicube.
I used to spend Toooo much time but Now Very Very Little,The Whole World Is Upside Down Inside Out,Pure Evil,Just Truth And Documentaries Lately.God bless everyone 🙏
이런거 좋아. 기억의 지평선 너머로 가버렸던걸 되찾은 기분이야. 정신적으로 만족감이 넘치고 기분이 아주 행복해~~~
this is so beautiful, he saved Polaroid ! and let us continue to enjoy it !
hear, hear!
This was beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Something doesn't sit right with me that Polaroid abandoned their factories and their people and then came crawling back after a group of very dedicated people kept the business alive.
To be honest, Polaroid the company is long gone.. The brandname Polaroid (and other assets) was acquired by another company and eventually were acquired by an investment fund (the one from mr. Smolokowski in the documentary) that owned The Impossible Project, so the name Polaroid could again be linked to a company that makes filmpacks and cameras that are compatible with the old Polaroid products. But the original Polaroid company dissapeared when they went bankrupt in 2001.
This documentary is so much appreciated!
Beautiful documentary. Thank you for making this.
Очень крутой фильм. С удовольствием посмотрел и убеждаюсь, что сегодня старые технологии пересмотрены и люди хотят сохранить лучшее.
Lets talk about the waste of analogue. What happens when it needs repair or consider at some point it goes into landfill. I too grew up in an analogue world but it's just not cost effective to stock and maintain the parts needed. They were great for their time but that is now over, unfortunately.
Simply amazing. PS: I am gonna order Polaroid 600 film although I find it a bit expensive. You ´bought´ me with this f...... documentary. Looks like passion beats reason. Time to dust off my Polaroid Impulse. A birdie told me about new Polaroid camera on the horizon... Take care & prosper.
Too neat. I hope we can get back ImPossible (Polaroid) film for my ImPossible (Polaroid) film back for my Mamyia RZ67. What about the chemical formula Kodak had for their Kodak ColorBurst camera that Polaroid sued for? My Mom loved her Kodak ColorBurst camera.
I don't know who would take pictures in a German butcher shop. They really are the wurst photos!
What a great documentary. Thank you ❤️
All the great and essential things are analogue; breathing, eating, sex. Its imperfection that makes us human!
i am kind of in my own analog journey, little steps.
i just cant take it anymore. my eyes are bleeding from staring at all those screens every day of the week, i encounter constant errors that need fixing or workarounds due to digitalization, everything is overly complicated and take up more time and my brain cant even process half of it anymore because the time it takes to learn and understand one new thing, there are already 10 other new things released. what am i? a robot? a humans capacity is limited. i m only 35 and i cant even handle things anymore. early 2000 was such a simple living and chill time in comparison.
my personal life is now mostly analog for the most part. enjoying music, hifi and speakers and some jazz and getting into vinyl and i do photography (i use a modern mirrorless) but i am exclusively using old vintage glass with it because i prefer the experience, i collect plants, i have an aquarium and a terarium to take care of. i dont own a tv or stuff like that. 90% of the stuff i buy, i buy it used too, so many nice old furniture pieces around people give away for free even to replace them with some ikea crap.
and the world is keep pushing this digitalization bullshit... and the more they do the less actually works, the more unreliable and complicated everything is and the less i want to be a part of it
I started in the analog world. B&W film and prints using Kodak system and Ansel Adams Zone System, shooting weddings assisting a top pro Monte Zucker then working at National Geographic reproducing photos and 4/C map relief with halftone contract screens and litho film. I started shooting with digital and editing in Photoshop in 1994 and posting my photos on a web server I managed and it was liberating.
YMMV and surely does if your initial experience was on digital cameras. Shooting with film seems like it more artistic, just as in the days shooting film it felt more artistic if you lugged around a 4x5 or 8x10 view camera on a 20 pound tripod instead of a pair of Nikon Fs like I did.
The irony is that 99% of the people who now use film then scan their negatives digitally then edit in Photoshop. In analog with the Zone System getting scene range to match print range was just the boring technical part. The artistry and editorialize happen in the darkroom doing hand puppet dodging and burning on the print.
I shed a tear at 2:40..how can we do that to those pieces of art
I have vinyl 45s and a 1974 jukebox to play on. Its a constant job keeping it running but worth it. 😊
Also still have and use my 35 pentax K1000.