Cameraperson
Directed by Kirsten Johnson
Produced by Fork Films, Big Mouth Productions
A visually inventive documentary essay that reframes archival footage into a personal meditation on witnessing, craft, and the slippery nature of truth captured through a camera lens.
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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