Cameraperson - True/False Film Fest

Cameraperson

A profoundly compassionate globe-trotting memoir from behind the camera, bearing witness to the highs and lows of the human experience.
Director: Kirsten Johnson
Runtime: 1:42
In-person: dir. Kirsten Johnson
Fest Year: 2016
Kirsten Johnson draws on her personal archive of remarkable footage gathered over the course of two decades as one of the most sought-after nonfiction cinematographers. Reframing and reshuffling this material, she focuses on the people and places that may not have made it into someone else’s film, but touched her in a profound way. The result is a transcendent film – part visual memoir, part journalistic exploration – seeking insights into the complexities of “truth” that live inside her frames. KJ immerses us in episodes from her globe-trotting adventures – Jasper, Texas; Kabul, Afghanistan; Sarajevo, Bosnia — and shares very personal footage of her mother, on her own journey through the last devastating stages of Alzheimer’s. After spending time with this touching, intimate, inspiring and funny film, you’ll never watch non-fiction cinema the same again. (PC) Preceded by a provocation by Geoff Dyer.