to mid-1970s Robert Wilson had begun to experimenting with video portraiture by creating a series of 100 episodes from 30 seconds known as Video 50.In 2007, after olte two years of work with Voom HD Networks, a company pioneering research into high-definition television technologies, VOOM Portraits took shape: a series of more than sixty high-definition video portraits depicting star system stars, ordinary people, and extraordinary animals.VOOM Portraits portray, among others, Brad Pitt, Winona Ryder, Johnny Depp, the Princess of Monaco, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Robert Downey Jr, Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert, Isabella Rossellini, Jeanne Moreau, Steve Buscemi, Alan Cumming, Willem Dafoe, Dita von Teese, as well as the world sumo champion, a car mechanic, frogs, hedgehogs, and panthers. Technology is, of course, a key component in the creation of these 21st century portraits extraordinary for the purity of the images. Through a sophisticated repetition system, the portraits can be shown in an endless loop, whether displayed in a museum, a public space, or a collector's home.

Each portrait is aopera developed from Wilson in collaboration with the subject and draws inspiration from films, art, historical events almost to create a series of "one-acts" for which Winona Ryder, for example, is Winnie from Beckett´s Happy Days , Caroline of Monaco recalls her mother - Grace Kelly - in Rear Window, Isabelle Huppert is Greta Garbo...VOOM Portraits would seem at first glance to be traditional static portraits. But then the characters perform a simple action - a small movement, a blink of the eye, a tap of the foot - and the experience of perception changes dramatically. The portraits are also accompanied from soundtracks created for the occasion from musicians such as Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Bernard Hermann, Michael Galasso, Big Black, Bach reinterpreted from Glenn Gould, Hans Peter Kuhn and Ethel Merman.