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Kirsten Johnson

Known for: Camera

Biography: 1965-03-17 (59 years old)

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."

Filmography

all 90

Movies 84

Director 18

self 6

TV Shows 6

Kirsten Johnson

Biography

Filmography

all 90

Movies 84

Director 18

self 6

TV Shows 6

Producer 5

A Photographic Memory (2024)

One Bullet (2024)

The Arc of Oblivion (2023)

Subject (2023)

Arctic Summer (2021)

Mother (2020)

On the Record (2020)

Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)

Elliott Erwitt - Silence Sounds Good (2019)

Museum Town (2019)

Cradle of Champions (2018)

A Thousand Thoughts (2018)

Crime + Punishment (2018)

Brooklyn Inshallah (2018)

32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide (2017)

Atomic Homefront (2017)

Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge (2017)

Risk (2017)

Betting on Zero (2017)

In the Service of the Film (2017)

A Thousand Mothers (2016)

The Joy of Extreme Possibility (2016)

Audrie & Daisy (2016)

Cameraperson (2016)

Trapped (2016)

The Above (2015)

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015)

Very Semi-Serious (2015)

The Armor of Light (2015)

A Woman Like Me (2015)

Buffalo Returns (2015)

That Film About Money (2014)

Citizenfour (2014)

The Wound and the Gift (2014)

1971 (2014)

Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity (2014)

Seeds of Time (2013)

Fatal Assistance (2013)

ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to Stage (2013)

Here One Day (2012)

The Program (2012)

Virgin Tales (2012)

A Place at the Table (2012)

The Invisible War (2012)

The War We Are Living (2011)

I Came to Testify (2011)

The War We Are Living (2011)

Yelling To The Sky (2011)

The Oath (2010)

No Woman, No Cry (2010)

The Edge of Joy (2010)

Waiting for Mercy: The Case Against Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref (2009)

Outrage (2009)

Throw Down Your Heart (2008)

Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)

Lioness (2008)

Darfur Now (2007)

Captain Mike Across America (2007)

Slacker Uprising (2007)

Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts (2007)

How Much Is Your Life Worth? (2007)

Election Day (2007)

Crime Fiction (2007)

Welcome Back to the Barrio (2006)

This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)

Deadline (2004)

Ladies First (2004)

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

Rokia: Voice of a New Generation (2003)

Starring Osama Bin Laden (2003)

A Nation on Edge (2003)

Known For
Camera

Gender
Female

Birthday
1965-03-17 (59 years old)

Birth Place
Seattle, United States of America

Citizenships
United States of America

Also Known As
Керстен Джонсон

Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship