Cameraperson

United States of America, 2016

Film
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As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten 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.

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Credits

director

Kirsten Johnson

producer

Kirsten Johnson

Marilyn Ness

production company

Big Mouth Productions

Chicken & Egg Pictures

Fork Films

The Bertha Foundation

writer

Doris Baizley

Lisa Freedman

Duration

01:42:00

Production places
United States of America
Production dates
2016

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-376534

Language

English

Subject category

Documentary

TMDB-Movie

376534

Wikidata

Q24631947

Collected

71 times

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