Cameraperson – An Interview with Kirsten Johnson

One of the most striking and original documentary works of 2016, Kirsten Johnson’s Cameraperson takes short sections from documentary films that Johnson worked on either as cinematographer or director and collects them in a fractious collage, serving as her memoir. Johnson’s work as a cinematographer, which includes Oscar and Palme d’Or winners (Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour and Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, respectively), spans decades and continents, and what emerges in Cameraperson is noth...