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 100
Point of View
1988
Frontline/World
2002
Cameraperson
2016
Fahrenheit 9/11
2004
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
2006
Citizenfour
2014
Fatal Assistance
2013
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
Ladies First
2004
Dick Johnson Is Dead
2020
Yelling To The Sky
2011
Arctic Summer
2021
Perpetua 664
2001
Virgin Tales
2012
Betting on Zero
2016
Derrida
2002
Two Towns of Jasper
2002
Sontag
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
2017
Election Day
2007
The Hamptons
2002
Risk
2017
Audrie & Daisy
2016
Wide Angle
2002
A Place at the Table
2012
India
2003
Risk/Reward
2003
The Viewing Booth
2020
The Oath
2010
Atomic Homefront
2017
The Above
2015
The Armor of Light
2015
Heart of America
2003
Outrage
2009
Slacker Uprising
2007
The Invisible War
2012
Brooklyn Inshallah
2018
Seeds of Time
2013
On the Record
2020
Asylum
2003
Trembling Before G-d
2001
Buffalo Returns
2015
A Woman Like Me
2015
Welcome Back to the Barrio
2006
Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
2014
Project Leap: Learning Out Loud
2005
Darfur Now
2007
1971
2014
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
2008
Lioness
2008
Very Semi-Serious
2015
Helen and the Bear
2024
The Wound and the Gift
2014
Crime + Punishment
2018
Bintou in Paris
1995
32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide
2017
Throw Down Your Heart
2008
The Joy of Extreme Possibility
2016
Museum Town
2019
Innovation: Life, Inspired
2004
Boys Will Be Girls
2003
Mother
2020
A Thousand Thoughts
2018
Trapped
2016
Oscar's Comeback
2008
The Venetian Dilemma
2004
Elliott Erwitt - Silence Sounds Good
2019
Deadline
2004
A Photographic Memory
2024
That Film About Money
2014
Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle
2001
No Woman, No Cry
2010
Brother Born Again
2001
Starring Osama Bin Laden
2003
Red Hook Justice
2005
Ancient Poison, Modern Cure
2002
Sabbath Queen
2024
ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to Stage
2013
The Edge of Joy
2010
This Very Life
2011
Crime Fiction
2007
Science Times
1997
A Thousand Mothers
2016
Here One Day
2012
I Came to Testify
2011
How Much Is Your Life Worth?
2007
Il faut que je l'aime
1994
The Lady Is a Fighting Lion
2011
The Program
2012
Innocent Until Proven Guilty
1999
Rokia: Voice of a New Generation
2003
Waiting for Mercy: The Case Against Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref
2009
Chasing the Virus
2003
Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today
2001
Cradle of Champions
2018
American Standoff
2002
A Nation on Edge
2003
Once a Month on Sunday
2015
Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts
2007
Building to Extremes
2004