First Person

Name: First Person
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Released: 2000
Rating: 8.6
Cast: Charles Butler

★ 8.6 392 votes 2000–2001 2 seasons · 17 episodes Ended Bravo

Biography Documentary

Starring

Charles Butler

Starring

Charles Butler

Ratings per Episode

Votes per Episode

	E1	E2	E3	E4	E5	E6	E7	E8	E9	E10	E11
S1	6.6	7.5	8.1	7.6	7.7	7.1	7.5	7.5	7.3	7.3	8.0
S2	7.2	7.4	7.1	8.0	8.9	7.4

About

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".