First Person
TV ShowTitle | First Person |
User score | 9 |
Release date | Feb 16, 2000 |
Release date of last episode | Oct 2, 2001 |
Genre | Documentary, News |
Production country | US |
Series status | Ended |
Seasons count | 2 (List of episodes) |
Episodes count | 19 |
First Person was an American TV series produced and directed by Errol Morris. The show engaged a varied group of individuals from civil advocates to criminals. Interviews were conducted with "The Interrotron", a device similar to a teleprompter: Errol and his subject each sit facing a camera. The image of each person's face is then projected onto a two-way mirror positioned in front of the lens of the other's camera. Instead of looking at a blank lens, then, both Morris and his subject are looking directly at a human face. Morris believes that the machine encourages monologue in the interview process, while also encouraging the interviewees to "express themselves to camera".