In drawing upon an assortment of source material including diaries (like Andy Warhol's and Ronald Reagan's), biographies, interviews and obituaries, Mr. Brown constructs portraits that have all the immediacy of reportage, all the fanciful detail of fiction.
By identifying known parts of the genetic code that are associated with specific physical traits, then using a 3D facial modeling software developed by some researchers in Basel, Dewey-Hagborg was able to construct portraits of people based on their DNA.
Now that those costs are plunging to zero and Moore's law [1] marches on, it's technologically and financially feasible for governments to collect and store everything about us, all of our movements, all of our communications, all of our associations, all the information they need to construct portraits of our lives that might be more detailed even than things that we know about ourselves.
He recently published carefully constructed self-portraits of his journey as an addict. .
Scholars have constructed various portraits of the historical Jesus, which often depict him as having one or more of the following roles: the leader of an apocalyptic movement, Messiah, a charismatic healer, a sage and philosopher, or an egalitarian social reformer.
Right now, the police can access that data only for investigations of particular crimes, making it harder to construct a portrait of the criminal networks behind gun crimes.
From then on, Godard constructs a portrait of Karina, putting a life, his love for her, on screen, trying to find that soul by way of the exterior.
The suspense of whether Barbara will escape drives the plot, but Petzold's film focusses on constructing a portrait of a woman and her contradictory beliefs.
They are drawn from Griffiths's novel "let me tell you," which constructs a portrait of Shakespeare's Ophelia from the four-hundred-and-eighty-three-word vocabulary that the character is given in "Hamlet".
This documentary interweaves 70 years of Stuart Hall's film, radio and television appearances, and material from his private archive to document a memorable life and construct a portrait of Britain's foremost radical intellectual.
