Basic Info

First Air: February 16, 2000

Rating: ⭐ 8.5/10 (2 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 19

Last Episode

Name: Mr. Personality

Season: 2, Episode: 1

Air Date: 2001-10-02

Runtime: 27 min

Michael Stone claims to understand the human psyche. He has developed his very own method for judging the personality of people. For this test he has made a list of hundreds of personality traits. By defining all the different traits and making a comparison to other lists and diagrams, he can with certainty tell who is a psychopath, sociopath, murderer and so on. Errol Morris talks to Michael Stone in an attempt to find out who he is. Has he lost himself in the quest to understand others?

First Person

2000 2 seasons 19 episodes ⭐ 8.5/10 2 votes

Overview

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".