Kirsten Johnson
Kirsten Johnson (born 12 October 1965, Seattle) is a cinematographer and documentary filmmaker. She graduated from Brown University in 1987, with a BA in Fine Arts and Literature. After two years in West Africa working on local fiction and documentary film projects, she attended the FEMIS (the French National Film School) in Paris. Her film "Cameraperson" premiered at Sundance 2016 and her short "The Above" premiered at 2015 New York Film Festival. Her work as a cinematographer appears in Oscar-winning "Citizen Four," Academy Award-nominated, "The Invisible War," Tribeca winner, "Pray the Devil Back to Hell," "Fahrenheit 9/11", Academy Award-nominated "Asylum," "This Film is Not Yet Rated," and "Derrida."

Subject

The Arc of Oblivion

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Cameraperson

Dick Johnson Is Dead
ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016

In the Service of the Film

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Deadline

Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity

1971

Citizenfour

Citizenfour

The Invisible War

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

The Above

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Cameraperson

The Program

That Film About Money

The Program

Cameraperson

A Photographic Memory

Cameraperson

A Woman Like Me
Sontag
Sontag

Helen and the Bear

Sabbath Queen

The Above

The Viewing Booth

Very Semi-Serious

I Came to Testify

Fahrenheit 9/11

Boys Will Be Girls

Museum Town

Virgin Tales

Two Towns of Jasper

Darfur Now
The Joy of Extreme Possibility

The Above

Slacker Uprising

Derrida

Cradle of Champions

The Oath

Throw Down Your Heart

Here One Day

Fatal Assistance

Dick Johnson Is Dead

Dick Johnson Is Dead

Mother

Perpetua 664
American Standoff

The Edge of Joy
The War We Are Living

Asylum

A Thousand Mothers

Trembling Before G-d
Ancient Poison, Modern Cure

Il faut que je l'aime

Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle

Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today

Brother Born Again

Ladies First

Buffalo Returns

Audrie & Daisy

Risk/Reward

A Decade Under the Influence
A Nation on Edge

Deadline

Rokia: Voice of a New Generation

Risk

Crime + Punishment

Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts

Lioness

No Woman, No Cry
Chasing the Virus
Once a Month on Sunday

Elliott Erwitt - Silence Sounds Good

32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide
India

A Place at the Table

Atomic Homefront

Crime Fiction

Innocent Until Proven Guilty

ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to Stage

Trapped

Bintou in Paris
Building to Extremes
Red Hook Justice

Yelling To The Sky

The Armor of Light
Project Leap: Learning Out Loud

The Wound and the Gift
Starring Osama Bin Laden

Outrage

Welcome Back to the Barrio

Seeds of Time
The Lady Is a Fighting Lion

A Thousand Thoughts
The Venetian Dilemma

On the Record

Election Day

How Much Is Your Life Worth?

Risk
Oscar's Comeback

Waiting for Mercy: The Case Against Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref

Brooklyn Inshallah
The Lady Is a Fighting Lion

Waiting for Mercy: The Case Against Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref

Election Day

Bintou in Paris

Dick Johnson Is Dead

Dick Johnson Is Dead

Arctic Summer

Betting on Zero

Heart of America

The Hamptons
Science Times

Frontline/World
Innovation: Life, Inspired

Wide Angle

Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge
