© New York Times Magazine

Characters are build up from acts, actions and inactions, but more often than not, best captured in one frame.

Produced by the NY Times Magazine, directed by Solve Sundsbo; Javier Bardem, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Jesse Eisenberg, Chloë Moretz, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Jennifer Lawrence, Noomi Rapace, Vincent Cassel, Anthony Mackie, Robert Duvall, Lesley Manville and Tilda Swinton put a one-minute act and captured it as a gallery of classic look video portrait with musical arrangement by Owen Pallett.

Overwhelming? Confusing? One too many? How about sparing yourself fifteen minutes to enjoy this personas on screen before they changed their mind.

The lens blog has a writeup for this special Hollywood Issue, and words has it that the actions were captured by the RED EPIC and ONE digital cinema camera system.