Cameraperson

About Cameraperson

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 trut…

Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson is a 2016 documentary film. The film is filed under news, cinematographer, and biography.

Kirsten Johnson takes the lead as Self (archive footage), Jacques Derrida as Self (archive footage), Michael Moore as Self (archive footage), and Richard Johnson as Self (archive footage). It runs 102 minutes and was released in September 2016.

The screenplay is by Doris Baizley and Lisa Freedman. It streams on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel in the United States.

Unbroken, Frida, and Mary Queen of Scots make useful companions to Cameraperson. TMDB voters put it at 6.7 out of 10 across 95 votes and it carries a NR rating.