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Feature film — 2016

Cameraperson (2016)

6.71h 42mDocumentary

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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A high-signal pick with 95 votes.

Fork Films / Big Mouth Productions / The Bertha Foundation / Chicken & Egg Films

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Director: Kirsten Johnson

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Cast & crew

Kirsten Johnson as Self (archive footage)

Kirsten Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Jacques Derrida as Self (archive footage)

Jacques Derrida

Self (archive footage)

Michael Moore as Self (archive footage)

Michael Moore

Self (archive footage)

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Richard Johnson

Self (archive footage)

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