Portraits in Dramatic Time

Johnny Luisi recently edited David Michalek’s high speed, high def video portraits of actors acting out a scene for the 2011 Lincoln Center Festival exhibit  Portraits in Dramatic Time. Alan Rickman, William H. Macy, Lily Taylor and Liev Schreiber were some of the actors who performed the 40 video portraits, and the installation played on an 85 by 45 ft screen that hung from the David H. Koch Theater. Completely mesmerized by the footage, I must be among many who’ve watched and re-watched Portraits ad nauseum. Since we have backstage access to Mr. Johnny Luisi, we thought we’d run him through a quick interrogation of the project and share the results with anyone who might be as interested as we were. Read on for the results […]