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Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson's formally adventurous documentary earned heaps of praise for its cine - journal style and personal take on going once more unto the breach of political hotspots — but its commendably unclassifiable quality may have worked against it come awards time.

Not exact matches

Sophie and Lee look back at some of the key films released in January, including Pablo Lorrain's Jackie Bouvier Kennedy biopic Jackie, Martin Scorsese's meditative Catholic drama Silence, and Kirsten Johnson's unique memoir Cameraperson.

Cameraperson (Unrated) Reverential documentary chronicling the career of Kirsten Johnson, cinematographer of the Oscar - winning, documentary Citizenfour and other groundbreaking exposes.

,» «Shepard & Dark» Kirsten Johnson * — «Cameraperson,» «CitizenFour» Asif Kapadia — «Amy,» «Senna» Aviva Kempner — «Rosenwald,» «The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg» Pedro Kos * — «The Square,» «Waste Land» Victor Kossakovsky — «Vivan las Antipodas!

«Cameraperson «The recently deceased Jacques Rivette famously said that all films are documentaries of their own making, but Kirsten Johnson, a long standing filmmaker and non-fiction cinematographer, has taken that concept to its logical extreme and has made a documentary that is both about her own life and about the very nature of documentary filmmaking.

Cameraperson As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot for other filmmakers and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her.

, Syd Garon (CEH15, Outstanding Graphic Design, Jodorowsky's Dune), Eugene Hernandez (Deputy Director, Film Society at Lincoln Center), Eric Hynes (Associate Curator of Film, Museum of the Moving Image), Jason Ishikawa (Head of International Sales, Cinetic Media), Steve James (CEH12 Winner, Outstanding Feature & Direction, The Interrupters), Kirsten Johnson (CEH17 Winner, Outstanding Feature & Cinematography, Cameraperson), John Kusiak (CEH12 Winner, Outstanding Score, Tabloid), Loira Limbal (Vice President, Firelight Media), Elizabeth Lo (CEH16 Winner, Outstanding Nonfiction Short Film, Hotel 22), Michal Marczak (CEH17 Winner, Heterodox Award, All These Sleepless Nights), Marilyn Ness (CEH17 Winner, Outstanding Feature, Cameraperson), Dan Nuxoll (Artistic Director, Rooftop Films), Bill Ross (CEH13 Nominee, Outstanding Direction, Tchoupitoulas; CEH16 Nominee, Cinematography, Western), Kelli Scarr (CEH09 Nominee, Outstanding Score, In a Dream), Mo Scarpelli (CEH16 Nominee, Spotlight Award, Frame by Frame), Jess Search (Chief Executive, The Doc Society), Signe, Byrge Sorensen (CEH16 Winner, Outstanding Feature Film & Production, The Look of Silence), Jean Tsien (Editor of CEH17 Audience Nominee Miss Sharon Jones!)

Congratulations to Kirsten Johnson and the whole Cameraperson team on their Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Documentary!

13th — Ava DuVernay, director Cameraperson — Kirsten Johnson, director O.J.: Made In America — Ezra Edelman, director Tickled — David Farrier, Dylan Reeve, directors Weiner — Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, directors

Other documentary highlights include Cameraperson, taking viewers inside the global career of cinematographer, Kirsten Johnson; and The Eagle Huntress set in the mountains of Mongolia where a teenage heroine learns the ancient - and previously male - only - art of falconry.

The camera is weapon and savior, mediator and patient observer, but it is never objective in Cameraperson, an extraordinary and singular filmmaking document by Kirsten Johnson that quietly lorded over everything I saw at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

More openings: Cameraperson, a personal documentary from filmmaker Kirsten Johnson and A Man Called Ove (winner of the Golden Space Needle for Best Actor) at SIFF Cinema Uptown

Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016) O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman, 2016) Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene, 2016) If there was one genre of film that felt truly innovative this year, it was documentary, and these three films stood out as revolutionary in their own way; even more importantly, all are intensely passionate and emotional.

Cameraperson, a personal documentary from filmmaker Kirsten Johnson, screens at SIFF Cinema Uptown on Wednesday, September 28 with a Skype Q&A with the filmmaker.

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Kirsten Johnson's film Cameraperson was named one of the Top Ten Films of 2016 by The Washington Post and The New York Times.

Bostic's vocals can currently be heard on cinematographer Kirsten Johnson's directorial debut «Cameraperson,» released last year, and she has several documentary projects due to be released soon.

Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016) Plenty of high - quality documentaries from the States to choose from, still Cameraperson easily won over, probably as it had the strongest effect on me — as someone who is engaged in the politics of images and as a working mother.

L'avenir (Things To Come, Mia Hansen - Love, 2016) Bei xi mo shou (Behemoth, Liang Zhao, 2015) Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016) Ouija — Origin of Evil (Mike Flanagan, 2016) Under The Shadow (Babak Anvari, 2016)

Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016) Similar in structure to Depardon's wonderful Journal de France (2012), but more achingly personal as it unspools, Kirsten Johnson (I didn't know her before this either) is a camera craftswoman from the top documentary shelf.

Additional celebrities at SIFF this year included Academy Award - winning director Morgan Neville with his documentary The Music of Strangers: Yo - Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble; award - winning writer and director James Schamus of Indignation; award - winning cinematographer Kirsten Johnson with her directorial debut Cameraperson; acclaimed actor Clea DuVall with her directorial debut The Intervention; directors Miles B. Miller and Joshua H. Miller, producer Kathryn Tucker, and actor Paul Sparks of All the Birds Have Flown South; actor Craig Robinson in Morris From America; director Jonathan Parker, producers Catherine di Napoli and Deborah Parker, and actor Eric McCormack with The Architect; Mike Birbiglia, director of Don't Think Twice; YouTube sensation and documentary subject of Presenting Princess Shaw Samantha Montgomery, who performed at the Opening Night Gala; Irish drag queen and marriage equality advocate Panti Bliss, subject of the documentary The Queen of Ireland, as well as director Conor Horgan; director Martin Spirit and subject Spencer Haywood of Full Court: The Spencer Haywood Story; irector Ned Crowley and actor Jim O'Heir of Middle Man; director James Redford with his new documentary Resilience; Pearl Jam founding member and Gleason composer Mike McCready; actor Laura Carmichael and director Chanya Button with the US premiere of Burn Burn Burn; director Iwai Shunji of A Bride for Rip Van Winkle; Joshua Marston, director of Complete Unknown; actor Corentin Fila of Being 17; Andreas Öhman, director of Eternal Summer; Ti West, director of In A Valley of Violence; director Roger Ross Williams and subject Ron Suskind of Life, Animated; director Nathan Adloff, actor Tim Boardman and producers Stephen Israel and Ash Christian of Miles; director Linas Phillips and producer Ian Bugno of Rainbow Time; Richard Tanne, director of Southside With You; Jocelyn Moorhouse, director of The Dressmaker; Brent Hodge, director of The Pistol Shrimps.

Special section on 54th New York Film Festival, including Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann, Ava DuVernay's The 13th, Barry Jenkins's Moonlight, Bertrand Tavernier's My Journey Through French Cinema, Pedro Almodóvar's Julieta; American movie acting, film criticism in the age of social media, Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson, Charles Burnett's To Sleep with Anger, Kleber Mendonça Filho's Aquarius