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Kirsten Johnson (born 1965) is an American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. She is mostly known for her camera work on several well-known feature-length documentaries such as Citizenfour and The Oath.
Kirsten Johnson. Director: Dick Johnson Is Dead. Kirsten Johnson's "Dick Johnson is Dead" won the Jury Prize for Innovation in Nonfiction Storytelling at Sundance 2020. Kirsten went on to win a Primetime Emmy for Best Directing of the film, Critic's Choice Award for Best Documentary and the Cinema Eye Award for Best Directing.
Oct 2, 2020 · To process the loss of her father to dementia, Kirsten Johnson repeatedly staged his death, resulting in the hilarious and devastating living eulogy “Dick Johnson Is Dead.”
Sep 28, 2020 · In her new film, Kirsten Johnson documents the loss of her father to dementia — while “killing” him over and over again.
Sep 28, 2022 · A cinematographer may look “almost like a cyborg,” says Kirsten Johnson. But make no mistake. That person wielding a huge, sterile-looking camera is flesh and blood, with questions and doubts common to all humanity.
Oct 4, 2020 · Part verité slow-motion tragedy, part surreal black comedy and a 100-percent long-goodbye love letter, Dick Johnson Is Dead is the documentarian’s way of dealing with a wave of grief she knows is...
Apr 16, 2022 · Opening her masterclass at doc film festival Visions du Réel in Switzerland, cinematographer and filmmaker Kirsten Johnson – an Emmy and Sundance award winner for “ Dick Johnson Is Dead ”...
Oct 1, 2020 · This is the latest documentary feature from Kirsten Johnson, who made a splash a few years ago with her feature directorial debut “Cameraperson,” a self-portrait created from material she had...
Cinematographer Kirsten Johnson continues the ongoing interrogation of the power of the camera in her new film, Cameraperson. A labor of love of the highest order, it is culled from decades of footage Johnson shot for a variety of directors on more than 25 films around the world.
Dick Johnson Is Dead. This playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director’s beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she is beginning to face the reality of losing him to dementia.
