born 1961 · United States · Cinematographer
Wally Pfister
Grounded, film-based realism in large-scale genre cinema.
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CINEMATOGRAPHER · BORN 1965 · UNITED STATES
Kirsten Johnson
Observational documentary camera shaped by questions of ethics.
- Born
- 1965
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Cinematographer
KNOWN FOR
- 2002Derrida
- 2010The Oath
- 2014Citizenfour
- 2016Cameraperson
WHY THEY MATTER
Cinematographer on Citizenfour, winner of the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature; Sundance award for The Oath; her Cameraperson won the Sheffield Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award; member of the Academy.
THE LIFE
Johnson studied film in Paris and became a principal camera operator on documentaries around the world. Her credits include Derrida, Darfur Now, Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Oath, for which she won a Sundance award. She shot Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2016 she directed Cameraperson, built from decades of her own footage and praised for its reflection on documentary ethics.
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