Cameraperson
2016, Film, 102 min, Biography, Documentary, History, English, United States, MoviePedia score 67
A moving glimpse into one filmmaker's personal journey and a thoughtful examination of what it means to train a camera on the world.
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.
Directed by Kirsten Johnson
Cast
- Kirsten Johnson as Self
- Aisha Bukar as Self
- Eric W. Davis as Self
- Keith Forsyth as Self
- Krso Family as Selves
- Kim Ghattas as Self
- Guy James Gray as Self
- Cpl. Abdul Henderson as Self
- C. Richard Johnson as Self
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