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Cameraperson / a film by Kirsten Johnson ; Fork Films presents a Big Mouth production ; produced by Kirsten Johnson, Inc. ; executive producers, Abigail Disney, Gini Reticker ; produced by Marilyn Ness ; filmed, produced, and directed by Kirsten Johnson.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Johnson, Kirsten (Kirsten Boyd), director of photography, film director, film producer, on-screen participant.
Disney, Abigail E., film producer.
Reticker, Gini, film producer.
Ness, Marilyn, film producer.
Bangerter, Nels, 1978- editor of moving image work.
Fork Films, presenter, production company.
Big Mouth Productions, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Series:
Criterion collection ; 853.
The Criterion collection ; 853
Language:
Arabic
Bosnian
English
Hausa
Multiple languages
Nilo-Saharan (Other)
Persian
Subjects (All):
Johnson, Kirsten (Kirsten Boyd).
Johnson, Kirsten.
Cinematographers--United States--Biography.
Cinematographers.
Documentary films.
United States.
Documentary films--Excerpts.
Documentary films--Production and direction.
Genre:
Biographies.
Film excerpts.
Documentary films.
Experimental films.
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Excerpts.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
4 3/4 in. stamping
Edition:
Director-approved two-DVD special edition, Widescreen.
Other Title:
Camera person
Place of Publication:
[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
Language Note:
In English, Bosnian, Arabic, Dari, Hausa, and Fur with English subtitles.
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing.
System Details:
DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround.
digital optical surround Dolby Digital
widescreen (1.78:1)
NTSC
video file DVD video region 1
Summary:
A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home with the director: Kirsten Johnson weaves these scenes and others into her film, a tapestry of footage captured over her twenty-five-year career as a documentary cinematographer.
Contents:
Disc one. Cameraperson; trailer
disc two. [Special features].
Credits:
Editor, Nels Bangerter; coeditor, Amanda Laws; music, Wellington Bowler, Carla Kihlstedt.
Notes:
Documentary films.
"For the past 25 years I've worked as a documentary cinematographer. I originally shot the following footage for other films, but here I ask you to see it as my memoir. These are the images that have marked me and leave me wondering still"--Opening frames.
Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 2016.
Program content: ©2016.
Excerpts from: I came to testify, Audrie and Daisy, Cradle of champions, The edge of joy, Derrida, The way we are living, This very life, Pray the devil back to hell, Citizenfour, A Thousand Mothers, Veri semi-serious, Throw down your heart, Two towns of Jasper, The oath, Trapped, Happy valley, Fahrenheit 9/11, The joy of extreme possibility, Buffalo returns, Ladies first, Born to fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. gravity, Darfur now, Virgin tales, Here one day, 1971.
Special features: new high-definition digital master; editing 'Cameraperson,' a new program featuring director Kirsten Johnson, producers Marilyn Ness and Danielle Varga, and editors Nels Bangerter and Amanda Laws; In the Service of the Film, a roundtable conversation with Johnson, producer Gini Reticker, and sound recordists Wellington Bowler and Judy Karp; excerpts from two 2016 film festival talks with Johnson, including one between her and filmmaker Michael Moore; The Above, a 2015 short film by Johnson; original theatrical trailer; and an essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda and reprinted writings by Johnson (in booklet).
ISBN:
9781681432588
1681432587
OCLC:
967295498
Publisher Number:
715515192415
CC2725D The Criterion Collection

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