Kirsten Johnson (born 12 October 1965, Seattle) is a cinematographer and documentary filmmaker. She graduated from Brown University in 1987, with a BA in Fine Arts and Literature. After two years in West Africa working on local fiction and documentary film projects, she attended the FEMIS (the French National Film School) in Paris. Her film «Cameraperson» premiered at Sundance 2016 and her short «The Above» premiered at 2015 New York Film Festival. Her work as a cinematographer appears in Oscar-winning «Citizen Four,» Academy Award-nominated, «The Invisible War,» Tribeca winner, «Pray the Devil Back to Hell,» «Fahrenheit 9/11», Academy Award-nominated «Asylum,» «This Film is Not Yet Rated,» and «Derrida.»
Kirsten Johnson
Kirsten Johnson is an American director and cinematographer born in Seattle, Washington, celebrated for formally inventive, deeply personal documentaries that interrogate the ethics and craft of nonfiction filmmaking itself. Cameraperson, assembled from decades of footage she had shot as a cinematographer on other directors' documentaries, reframed her own career into a meditation on memory, complicity, and the camera's presence, earning widespread critical acclaim. Dick Johnson Is Dead, a startlingly inventive and tender collaboration with her own aging, dementia-affected father in which they stage his death and afterlife in numerous imagined ways, extended her fascination with mortality and the camera's power to process grief in advance. Johnson's formally daring, deeply personal approach to documentary form has made her one of the most innovative nonfiction filmmakers of her generation.
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Kirsten Johnson is an American director and cinematographer born in Seattle, Washington, celebrated for formally inventive, deeply personal documentaries that interrogate the ethics and craft of nonfiction filmmaking itself. Cameraperson, assembled from decades of footage she had shot as a cinematographer on other directors' documentaries, reframed her own career into a meditation on memory, complicity, and the camera's presence, earning widespread critical acclaim. Dick Johnson Is Dead, a startlingly inventive and tender collaboration with her own aging, dementia-affected father in which they stage his death and afterlife in numerous imagined ways, extended her fascination with mortality and the camera's power to process grief in advance. Johnson's formally daring, deeply personal approach to documentary form has made her one of the most innovative nonfiction filmmakers of her generation.
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Kirsten Johnson
1965-10-12 · Seattle, Washington, USA
Kirsten Johnson (born 12 October 1965, Seattle) is a cinematographer and documentary filmmaker. She graduated from Brown University in 1987, with a BA in Fine Arts and Literature. After two years in West Africa working on local fiction and documentary film projects, she attended the FEMIS (the French National Film School) in Paris. Her film "Cameraperson" premiered at Sundance 2016 and her short "The Above" premiered at 2015 New York Film Festival. Her work as a cinematographer appears in Oscar-winning "Citizen Four," Academy Award-nominated, "The Invisible War," Tribeca winner, "Pray the Devil Back to Hell," "Fahrenheit 9/11", Academy Award-nominated "Asylum," "This Film is Not Yet Rated," and "Derrida."