Cameraperson

Director: Kirsten Johnson

Institute History

  • 2016 Sundance Film Festival

Description

Kirsten Johnson, the cinematographer for Two Towns of Jasper, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, The Oath, and Happy Valley, among many others, is the woman behind the camera who shot some of the most memorable documentaries to have played at the Sundance Film Festival. This year, she presents an extraordinary and deeply poetic documentary of her own, which investigates what it means to film and be filmed.

As a visually radical memoir, Cameraperson draws on the remarkable footage that Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.

— Shari Frilot

Screening Details

  • Section: New Frontier Films & Performances
  • Film Type: US Documentary Feature
  • Country: U.S.A.
  • Language: English/Arabic/Bosnian/Dari
  • Run Time: 102 min.

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