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."

Known For
Camera
Born
October 12, 1965 (age 59)
Place of Birth
Seattle, Washington, USA
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2023

Subject

2023

The Arc of Oblivion

2006

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

2016

Cameraperson

2020

Dick Johnson Is Dead

2018

ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016

2017

In the Service of the Film

2023

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

2004

Deadline

2014

Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity

2014

1971

2014

Citizenfour

2014

Citizenfour

2012

The Invisible War

2008

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

2015

The Above

2006

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

2016

Cameraperson

2012

The Program

2014

That Film About Money

2012

The Program

2016

Cameraperson

2024

A Photographic Memory

2016

Cameraperson

2015

A Woman Like Me

NaN

Sontag

NaN

Sontag

2024

Helen and the Bear

2024

Sabbath Queen

2015

The Above

2020

The Viewing Booth

2015

Very Semi-Serious

2011

I Came to Testify

2004

Fahrenheit 9/11

2003

Boys Will Be Girls

2019

Museum Town

2012

Virgin Tales

2002

Two Towns of Jasper

2007

Darfur Now

2016

The Joy of Extreme Possibility

2015

The Above

2007

Slacker Uprising

2002

Derrida

2018

Cradle of Champions

2010

The Oath

2008

Throw Down Your Heart

2012

Here One Day

2013

Fatal Assistance

2020

Dick Johnson Is Dead

2020

Dick Johnson Is Dead

2020

Mother

2001

Perpetua 664

2002

American Standoff

2010

The Edge of Joy

2011

The War We Are Living

2003

Asylum

2016

A Thousand Mothers

2001

Trembling Before G-d

2002

Ancient Poison, Modern Cure

1994

Il faut que je l'aime

2001

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

2001

Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today

2001

Brother Born Again

2004

Ladies First

2015

Buffalo Returns

2016

Audrie & Daisy

2003

Risk/Reward

2003

A Decade Under the Influence

2003

A Nation on Edge

2004

Deadline

2003

Rokia: Voice of a New Generation

2017

Risk

2018

Crime + Punishment

2007

Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts

2008

Lioness

2010

No Woman, No Cry

2003

Chasing the Virus

2015

Once a Month on Sunday

2019

Elliott Erwitt - Silence Sounds Good

2017

32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide

2003

India

2012

A Place at the Table

2017

Atomic Homefront

2007

Crime Fiction

1999

Innocent Until Proven Guilty

2013

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

2016

Trapped

1995

Bintou in Paris

2004

Building to Extremes

2005

Red Hook Justice

2011

Yelling To The Sky

2015

The Armor of Light

2005

Project Leap: Learning Out Loud

2014

The Wound and the Gift

2003

Starring Osama Bin Laden

2009

Outrage

2006

Welcome Back to the Barrio

2013

Seeds of Time

2011

The Lady Is a Fighting Lion

2018

A Thousand Thoughts

2004

The Venetian Dilemma

2020

On the Record

2007

Election Day

2007

How Much Is Your Life Worth?

2017

Risk

2008

Oscar's Comeback

2009

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

2018

Brooklyn Inshallah

2011

The Lady Is a Fighting Lion

2009

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

2007

Election Day

1995

Bintou in Paris

2020

Dick Johnson Is Dead

2020

Dick Johnson Is Dead

2021

Arctic Summer

2016

Betting on Zero

2003

Heart of America

2023

The Hamptons

2023

Science Times

2023

Frontline/World

2023

Innovation: Life, Inspired

2023

Wide Angle

2023

Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge

2023

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