{"id":7165,"date":"2019-01-14T16:09:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/?p=7165"},"modified":"2019-02-19T21:43:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:43:33","slug":"kirsten-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/2019\/kirsten-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"KIRSTEN JOHNSON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7171\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/files\/2019\/01\/KJ-HEADSHOT-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/files\/2019\/01\/KJ-HEADSHOT-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/files\/2019\/01\/KJ-HEADSHOT.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kirsten Johnson is currently grappling with her father&#8217;s dementia and the state of the planet by making a comedy about death. Her film <em>Cameraperson<\/em> premiered at Sundance 2016, was short-listed for an Academy Award, won the National Board of Review &#8222;Freedom of Expression&#8220; prize and was named one of the &#8222;Top Ten Films of 2016&#8220; by The Washington Post and The New York Times. Her short film <em>The Above<\/em> premiered at the 2015 New York Film Festival and was nominated for the IDA Best Short of 2016. Kirsten&#8217;s camerawork has appeared in the Academy Award-winning <em>Citizenfour<\/em>, Academy Award-nominated <em>The Invisible War<\/em>, Tribeca Documentary winner, <em>Pray The Devil Back To Hell<\/em>, and the Cannes Palme d&#8217;Or winner <em>Fahrenheit 9\/11<\/em>. She is curious about the future of image literacy, the nature of subjectivity, and believes in cinema.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt; At the ZDOK.19<\/strong> <strong>conference<\/strong>, Kirsten Johnson talks about her film <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/filme-2019\/\"><em>Cameraperson<\/em><\/a> and discusses her work with Mirjam von Arx (director and producer of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/filme-2019\/\"><em>Virgin Tales<\/em><\/a>, 2012)<\/p>\n<p>&gt; Watch Kirsten Johnson&#8217;s <strong>interview<\/strong> about <em>Camerperson<\/em> on Arte:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/de\/videos\/077193-002-A\/kirsten-johnson\/\">\u00a0https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/de\/videos\/077193-002-A\/kirsten-johnson\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Filmography:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>(as director)<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1.5rem\">2015 The Above (Documentary short)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1.5rem\">2016 Cameraperson (Documentary)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>(as cinematographer)<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>2017: Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge (Documentary, directed by\u00a0Blair Foster, Alex Gibney)<\/li>\n<li>2018: A Thousand Thoughts (Documentary, directed by Sam Green)<\/li>\n<li>2016: Risk (Documentary, directed by\u00a0Laura Poitras)<\/li>\n<li>2016: Trapped\u00a0(Documentary, directed by\u00a0Dawn Porter)<\/li>\n<li>2014: Citizenfour\u00a0(Documentary, directed by\u00a0Laura Poitras)<\/li>\n<li>2013: The Invisible War (part of the series The Independent Lens 2007-2016)<\/li>\n<li>2015: A Woman like me (Documentary, directed by\u00a0Elizabeth Giamatti, Alex Sichel)<\/li>\n<li>2015: 1971\u00a0(Documentary, directed by\u00a0Johanna Hamilton)<\/li>\n<li>2012: Virgin Tales\u00a0(Documentary, directed by Mirjam von Arx)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(&#8230; and many more)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmcomment.com\/article\/kirsten-johnson-cameraperson\/\">www.filmcomment.com\/article\/kirsten-johnson-cameraperson\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirsten Johnson is currently grappling with her father&#8217;s dementia and the state of the planet by making a comedy about death. Her film Cameraperson premiered at Sundance 2016, was short-listed for an Academy Award, won the National Board of Review &#8222;Freedom of Expression&#8220; prize and was named one of the &#8222;Top Ten Films of 2016&#8220; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3675,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437,511129,638,593941],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-gaeste","category-referate","category-zdok-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7165"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8474,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zdok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}