Word: interrotron
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...much like Mary Shelley's doctor, Morris is an inventor. His creation: the Interrotron, a camera with a TelePrompTer rigged over the lens to display Morris' image, so subjects can look right into the lens while talking to him. Letting them address viewers directly--hence the series title--the device changes the very structure of the narrative. "There's something powerful about eye contact," says Morris. "When someone looks into your eyes, are you aware of it? You betcha...
...project came about when Morris was preparing to shoot his interviews for "Fast, Cheap, and out of Control." This was the first time that he had used his Interrotron, a device of two-way mirrors and video equipment that allows his subjects to speak to him while looking directly into his video image while he does the same. This device is responsible for the way his subjects look directly into the camera, an innovation that gives lends his films a more personal quality. He needed a subject for a throwaway interview to test the machine before he began shooting...
...Errol Morris' most significant upcoming project is a series for Bravo called "First Person," which is based on the Interrotron. He describes the series, which will ultimately consist of eleven episodes, as "first-person stories, shorter stuff that doesn't fit into an hour and a half." The programs have already aired in the UK, and will begin showing here in February...
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