Fourteen Actors Acting (with Owen Pallett)

Fourteen Actors Acting is a video gallery of beautifully shot black & white shorts featuring ‘classic screen types’ such as Tilda Swinton, Michael Douglas, Natalie Portman and Matt Damon.

What makes this extra neat is that the music was composed by Owen Pallett, and recorded in Prague by the Czech Symphony Strings.

The process of writing the music for each video was instinctive, Mr. Pallett said. “As soon as the image hit my eyes I knew automatically.”  However, his collaboration with a print publication and a photographer wasn’t crystal clear for everyone.  “I had a really hard time explaining the gig to my grandma,” Mr. Pallett said. “She was like, ‘Why are you writing music for a magazine?’”

Head to The New York Times to check the shorts out.

Greg