Kirsten Johnson

Personal Info

Know For

Camera

Gender

Female

Birthday

1965-10-12 (60 years old)

Place of Birth

Seattle, Washington, USA

Kirsten Johnson

Biography

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-...

Acting

2023

Subject

as Self

2006

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

as Self - Interviewer (voice)

2016

Cameraperson

as Self (archive footage)

Production

2004

Deadline

as Director

2014

2014

1971

as Director of Photography

2014

Citizenfour

as Director of Photography

2014

Citizenfour

as Co-Producer

2012

The Invisible War

as Director of Photography

2008

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

as Director of Photography

2015

The Above

as Director

2006

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

as Director of Photography

2016

Cameraperson

as Director

2012

The Program

as Producer

2014

That Film About Money

as Director of Photography

2012

The Program

as Director of Photography

2016

Cameraperson

as Producer

2024

A Photographic Memory

as Executive Producer

2016

Cameraperson

as Director of Photography

2015

A Woman Like Me

as Director of Photography

-

Sontag

as Screenplay

-

Sontag

as Director

2024

Helen and the Bear

as Executive Producer

2024

Sabbath Queen

as Cinematography

2015

The Above

as Producer

2020

The Viewing Booth

as Executive Producer

2015

Very Semi-Serious

as Director of Photography

2011

I Came to Testify

as Director of Photography

2004

Fahrenheit 9/11

as Additional Camera

2003

Boys Will Be Girls

as Director of Photography

2019

Museum Town

as Director of Photography

2012

Virgin Tales

as Director of Photography

2002

Two Towns of Jasper

as Additional Camera

2007

Darfur Now

as Director of Photography

2016

The Joy of Extreme Possibility

as Director of Photography

2015

The Above

as Director of Photography

2007

Slacker Uprising

as Director of Photography

2002

Derrida

as Director of Photography

2018

Cradle of Champions

as Additional Camera

2010

The Oath

as Director of Photography

2008

Throw Down Your Heart

as Director of Photography

2012

Here One Day

as Director of Photography

2013

Fatal Assistance

as Director of Photography

2020

2020

Mother

as Executive Producer

2001

Perpetua 664

as Director of Photography

2002

American Standoff

as Director of Photography

2010

The Edge of Joy

as Additional Camera

2011

The War We Are Living

as Director of Photography

2003

Asylum

as Director of Photography

2016

A Thousand Mothers

as Director of Photography

2001

Trembling Before G-d

as Additional Camera

2002

Ancient Poison, Modern Cure

as Camera Operator

1994

Il faut que je l'aime

as Director of Photography

2001

2001

Brother Born Again

as Director of Photography

2004

Ladies First

as Director of Photography

2015

Buffalo Returns

as Director of Photography

2016

Audrie & Daisy

as Additional Camera

2003

Risk/Reward

as Additional Photography

2003

A Decade Under the Influence

as Additional Camera

2003

A Nation on Edge

as Camera Operator

2004

Deadline

as Director of Photography

2003

Rokia: Voice of a New Generation

as Director of Photography

2017

Risk

as Co-Producer

2018

Crime + Punishment

as Camera Operator

2008

Lioness

as Director of Photography

2010

No Woman, No Cry

as Director of Photography

2003

Chasing the Virus

as Camera Operator

2015

Once a Month on Sunday

as Director of Photography

2019

Elliott Erwitt - Silence Sounds Good

as Director of Photography

2017

32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide

as Additional Photography

2003

India

as Camera Operator

2012

A Place at the Table

as Director of Photography

2017

Atomic Homefront

as Additional Camera

2007

Crime Fiction

as Director of Photography

2016

Trapped

as Director of Photography

1995

Bintou in Paris

as Director

2004

Building to Extremes

as Camera Operator

2005

Red Hook Justice

as Director of Photography

2011

Yelling To The Sky

as Still Photographer

2015

The Armor of Light

as Additional Photography

2005

Project Leap: Learning Out Loud

as Director of Photography

2014

The Wound and the Gift

as Director of Photography

2003

Starring Osama Bin Laden

as Camera Operator

2009

Outrage

as Additional Camera

2006

Welcome Back to the Barrio

as Second Assistant Camera

2013

Seeds of Time

as Camera Operator

2011

The Lady Is a Fighting Lion

as Director of Photography

2018

A Thousand Thoughts

as Director of Photography

2004

The Venetian Dilemma

as Additional Photography

2020

On the Record

as Additional Camera

2007

Election Day

as Director of Photography

2007

How Much Is Your Life Worth?

as Additional Camera

2017

Risk

as Director of Photography

2008

Oscar's Comeback

as Director of Photography

2018

Brooklyn Inshallah

as Consulting Producer

2011

The Lady Is a Fighting Lion

as Assistant Editor

2007

Election Day

as Producer

1995

Bintou in Paris

as Screenplay

2020

Dick Johnson Is Dead

as Director of Photography

2020

2021

Arctic Summer

as Thanks

2016

Betting on Zero

as Additional Director of Photography

2003

Heart of America

as Art Direction

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