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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Character
Prestige, grave, character-led and spare.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
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Cast
- Kirsten JohnsonSelf (archive footage)
- Jacques DerridaSelf (archive footage)
- Michael MooreSelf (archive footage)
- Richard JohnsonSelf (archive footage)
Crew
- Kirsten JohnsonDirector
- Lisa FreedmanWriter
- Doris BaizleyWriter
- Kirsten JohnsonDirector of Photography
- Nels BangerterEditor
- Kirsten JohnsonProducer
- Marilyn NessProducer
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