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Cameraperson

27th(2022) Special Program in Focus

Family/Child · Films about Films · Politics · History/War  

  • CountryUnited States
  • Production Year2016
  • Running Time103min
  • Format DCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
In the first caption, Kirsten Johnson asks the audience to view the footage she filmed for other directors during her twenty-five-year career as a cinematographer as her own memoir. Fragments of tragic spaces in Bosnia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Cuba, and other nations stained with civil wars, genocides, and war sex crimes unfold onscreen. Among those images, the director inserts clips from home movies featuring her twin daughter and son as well as her mother who is suffering from Alzheimer’s. The only thing that connects this mix of disparate images is the camera between the world and the “I” of the director (Kirsten Johnson). It is a unique meta documentary and an excellent autobiography of a “cameraperson” that contains an ethical inquiry into the relationship between history and the individual, memory and oblivion, image and gaze, reality and fiction, and pain and spectacle. (KANG Sowon)
Director
Director
Kirsten JOHNSON
Kirsten Johnson was born in 1965 and majored in the Fine Arts and Literature in Brown University before she studied at La Fémis in France. For more than twenty years, she worked as a cinematographer participating in the productions of over fifty documentaries, including The Oath (2010) and Citizenfour (2015). Her directorial feature length documentaries include Cameraperson (2016) and Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020), the former of which was introduced at several film festivals including the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival. It also won the Jury Prize for Feature Length Documentaries at the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Grand Prize for Feature Length Documentaries at the Camden International Film Festival.
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Credit
  • Director Kirsten JOHNSON 커스틴 존슨
  • Producer Marilyn NESS
  • Cast
  • Cinematography Kirsten JOHNSON
  • Editor Nels BANGERTER
  • Production Company BIG MOUTH PRODUCTIONS
    United States


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