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."
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Films (98)
Sabbath Queen
2024 · Cinematography
Helen and the Bear
2024 · Executive Producer
A Photographic Memory
2024 · Executive Producer
The Arc of Oblivion
2023 · Self
Subject
2023 · Self
Arctic Summer
2021 · Thanks
The Viewing Booth
2020 · Executive Producer
Mother
2020 · Executive Producer
On the Record
2020 · Additional Camera
Descansa en paz, Dick Johnson
2020 · Self, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
Elliott Erwitt - Silence Sounds Good
2019 · Director of Photography
Museum Town
2019 · Director of Photography
Cradle of Champions
2018 · Additional Camera
A Thousand Thoughts
2018 · Director of Photography
Crime + Punishment
2018 · Camera Operator
ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016
2018 · self
Brooklyn Inshallah
2018 · Consulting Producer
32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide
2017 · Additional Photography
Patios Radioactivos
2017 · Additional Camera
Risk
2017 · Co-Producer, Director of Photography
In the Service of the Film
2017 · self
A Thousand Mothers
2016 · Director of Photography
The Joy of Extreme Possibility
2016 · Director of Photography
Audrie y Daisy
2016 · Additional Camera
Cameraperson
2016 · Self (archive footage), Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Betting on Zero
2016 · Additional Director of Photography
Trapped
2016 · Director of Photography
The Above
2015 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Very Semi-Serious
2015 · Director of Photography
The Armor of Light
2015 · Additional Photography
A Woman Like Me
2015 · Director of Photography
Buffalo Returns
2015 · Director of Photography
Once a Month on Sunday
2015 · Director of Photography
That Film About Money
2014 · Director of Photography
Citizenfour
2014 · Director of Photography, Co-Producer
The Wound and the Gift
2014 · Director of Photography
1971
2014 · Director of Photography
Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
2014 · Director of Photography
Seeds of Time
2013 · Camera Operator
Fatal Assistance
2013 · Director of Photography
ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to Stage
2013 · Additional Photography
Here One Day
2012 · Director of Photography
The Program
2012 · Producer, Director of Photography
Virgin Tales
2012 · Director of Photography
A Place at the Table
2012 · Director of Photography
The Invisible War
2012 · Director of Photography
I Came to Testify
2011 · Director of Photography
Yelling To The Sky
2011 · Still Photographer
The Lady Is a Fighting Lion
2011 · Director of Photography, Assistant Editor
This Very Life
2011 · Cinematography
The Oath
2010 · Director of Photography
No Woman, No Cry
2010 · Director of Photography
The Edge of Joy
2010 · Additional Camera
Waiting for Mercy: The Case Against Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref
2009 · Co-Producer, Editor
Outrage
2009 · Additional Camera
Throw Down Your Heart
2008 · Director of Photography
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
2008 · Director of Photography
Oscar's Comeback
2008 · Director of Photography
Lioness
2008 · Director of Photography
Darfur Now
2007 · Director of Photography
Le soulèvement flemmard
2007 · Director of Photography
Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts
2007 · Director of Photography
How Much Is Your Life Worth?
2007 · Additional Camera
Election Day
2007 · Director of Photography, Producer
Crime Fiction
2007 · Director of Photography
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
2006 · Self - Interviewer (voice), Director of Photography
Welcome Back to the Barrio
2006 · Second Assistant Camera
Project Leap: Learning Out Loud
2005 · Director of Photography
The Venetian Dilemma
2005 · Additional Photography
Red Hook Justice
2005 · Director of Photography
Deadline
2004 · Director, Director of Photography
Ladies First
2004 · Director of Photography
Fahrenheit 9/11
2004 · Additional Camera
Building to Extremes
2004 · Camera Operator
Rokia: Voice of a New Generation
2003 · Director of Photography
A Nation on Edge
2003 · Camera Operator
Chasing the Virus
2003 · Camera Operator
India
2003 · Camera Operator
Starring Osama Bin Laden
2003 · Camera Operator
Une décennie sous influence
2003 · Additional Camera
Asylum
2003 · Director of Photography
Boys Will Be Girls
2003 · Director of Photography
Risk/Reward
2003 · Additional Photography
Heart of America
2003 · Art Direction
Ancient Poison, Modern Cure
2002 · Camera Operator
The Hamptons
2002 · Director of Photography
Derrida
2002 · Director of Photography
Two Towns of Jasper
2002 · Additional Camera
American Standoff
2002 · Director of Photography
Trembling Before G-D : Juifs orthodoxes et homosexualité
2001 · Additional Camera
Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle
2001 · Director of Photography
Perpetua 664
2001 · Director of Photography
Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today
2001 · Director of Photography
Brother Born Again
2001 · Director of Photography
Innocent Until Proven Guilty
1999 · Director
Bintou in Paris
1995 · Director, Screenplay
Il faut que je l'aime
1994 · Director of Photography
Sontag
· Screenplay, Director
Séries (8)
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
2017 · Director of Photography
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Self
Innovation: Life, Inspired
2004 · Camera Operator
Wide Angle
2002 · Camera Operator
The Hamptons
2002 · Additional Camera
Frontline/World
2002 · Camera Operator
Science Times
1997 · Camera Operator
POV
1988 · Director of Photography