Kirsten Johnson
Birthday: 1965-10-12
Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, USA
Biography: 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."
Movies
Subject
In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences – good...
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The Arc of Oblivion
"The Arc of Oblivion" explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans...
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which th...
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Cameraperson
As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Jo...
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ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016
Made from footage captured at Brooklyn’s BAMcinemafest in June 2016 in which filmmakers were left al...
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Dick Johnson Is Dead
With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father al...
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In the Service of the Film
The following roundtable conversation features director Kirsten Johnson along with documentary filmm...
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