Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson on life, work and 5 documentaries that changed the world
KIRSTEN Johnson has enjoyed a garlanded career making documentaries, working as a cinematographer on some of the most important films of recent times, including Citizenfour about the whistle-blower Edward Snowden, Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Invisible War.
In Cameraperson, which premiered earlier in the year to acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival, the American sits in the director’s chair and gazes back over her 25-year career. When it came to reviewing an early, 150-minute cut of the documentary, she was taken aback.
