Kirsten Johnson
Directing
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-nominated "Asylum," "This Film is Not Yet Rated," and "Derrida."
As actor 8
On the crew 101
POV
1988
Fahrenheit 9/11
2004
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
2017
Frontline/World
2002
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
The Hamptons
2002
Citizenfour
2014
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
2006
Dick Johnson Is Dead
2020
The Hamptons
2002
Yelling To The Sky
2011
Cameraperson
2016
Heart of America
2003
A Place at the Table
2012
On the Record
2020
Risk
2017
Wide Angle
2002
Atomic Homefront
2017
Fatal Assistance
2013
A Woman Like Me
2015
Slacker Uprising
2007
Derrida
2002
Betting on Zero
2016
Perpetua 664
2001
Sontag
Lioness
2008
The Above
2015
Audrie & Daisy
2016
No Woman, No Cry
2010
Deadline
2004
Darfur Now
2007
Virgin Tales
2012
Buffalo Returns
2015
The Invisible War
2012
ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to Stage
2013
Risk/Reward
2003
Arctic Summer
2021
Two Towns of Jasper
2002
India
2003
That Film About Money
2014
Brooklyn Inshallah
2018
A Photographic Memory
2024
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
2008
The Armor of Light
2015
32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide
2017
Seeds of Time
2013
Outrage
2009
Trembling Before G-d
2001
Throw Down Your Heart
2008
Boys Will Be Girls
2003
Election Day
2007
The Oath
2010
Ladies First
2004
Museum Town
2019
1971
2014
Asylum
2003
Il faut que je l'aime
1994
Mother
2020
Crime Fiction
2007
The Wound and the Gift
2014
Helen and the Bear
2024
The Joy of Extreme Possibility
2016
Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
2014
Elliott Erwitt - Silence Sounds Good
2019
The Viewing Booth
2020
Bintou in Paris
1995
Welcome Back to the Barrio
2006
Very Semi-Serious
2015
Crime + Punishment
2018
Innocent Until Proven Guilty
1999
Trapped
2016
Red Hook Justice
2005
The Venetian Dilemma
2004
Project Leap: Learning Out Loud
2005
The Edge of Joy
2010
Rokia: Voice of a New Generation
2003
A Thousand Thoughts
2018
Innovation: Life, Inspired
2004
Ancient Poison, Modern Cure
2002
Sabbath Queen
2024
Starring Osama Bin Laden
2003
Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle
2001
Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today
2001
Brother Born Again
2001
Cradle of Champions
2018
This Very Life
2011
I Came to Testify
2011
Science Times
1997
Oscar's Comeback
2008
How Much Is Your Life Worth?
2007
Once a Month on Sunday
2015
A Nation on Edge
2003
American Standoff
2002
A Thousand Mothers
2016
The Program
2012
Here One Day
2012
The Lady Is a Fighting Lion
2011
Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts
2007
Waiting for Mercy: The Case Against Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref
2009
Building to Extremes
2004
Chasing the Virus
2003