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Voom Portraits (2007)

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Voom Portraits
NR 1 hr 51 minOct 1st, 2007Documentary
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Iconic artist and theater director Robert Wilson has created a series of video portraits of celebrities ordinary people and animals called VOOM Portraits Known for his glacierpaced theatrical productions with Tom Waits and Lou Reed Wilsons now bringing his aesthetic to a video format The recent developments in HD technology have allowed Wilson to create something like a precise hybrid of still photography and motion pictures Actors such as Brad Pitt as a crazy person on the streets in the rain Isabelle Huppert as Greta Garbo Steve Buscemi as a mad butcher chewing gum on a variety show Robert Downey Jr as a dreaming corpse in a Rembrandt painting and Winona Ryder as Winnie the main female character in Samuel Becketts Happy Days buried up to her neck in sand were asked to think of nothing and move slowly and steadily to collaborate in Wilsons vision of who they might be