documentary filmmaker
Kirsten Johnson is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. Among her credits is Cameraperson. She is an adjunct faculty member at New York University.
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The Document
Body Language A veteran documentary cameraperson reflects on a moment she filmed years earlier...and only recently realized what a brave and monumental act she'd captured.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
'Cameraperson': a meditation on a life behind the camera For more than two decades, filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has traveled the world with her camera capturing footage for documentaries. She filmed the desperation of war-torn Sudan and the stories of sexual assault victims in the American military; she followed French philosopher Jacques Derrida as he tossed out bon mots. Now, she’s cut some of that footage into a film of her own: a meditation on what it means to turn a camera on the world, aptly named “Cameraperson.”
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