Name
Kirsten Johnson
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1965-10-12 (61 years old)
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."
Known For
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In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first o...
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Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/...
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With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old...
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Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process b...
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An investigative and powerfully emotional documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldie...
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As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker ...
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It is the last day of high school and the unthinkable is about to happen. Distraught at th...
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The haunting story of music executive Drew Dixon as she grapples with her decision to beco...
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Using personal stories, this powerful documentary illuminates the plight of the 49 million...
- 2023 Subject as Self
- 2023 The Arc of Oblivion as Self
- 2006 This Film Is Not Yet Rated as Self - Interviewer (voice)
- 2016 Cameraperson as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 Dick Johnson Is Dead as Self
- 2018 ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016 as self
- 2017 In the Service of the Film as self
- 2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter ( 1 episode ) as Self
