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Kirsten Johnson(II)

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Kirsten Johnson at an event for Cameraperson (2016)
A lifetime of making documentaries has convinced award-winning filmmaker Kirsten Johnson of the power of the real. But now she’s ready to use every escapist movie-making trick in the book - staging inventive and fantastical ways for her 86-year-old psychiatrist father to die while hoping that cinema might help her bend time, laugh at pain and keep her father alive forever. The darkly funny and wildly imaginative DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD is a love letter from a daughter to a father, creatively blending fact and fiction to create a celebratory exploration of how movies give us the tools to grapple with life’s profundity. DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD was filmed, produced and directed by Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson), produced by Katy Chevigny and Marilyn Ness, co-produced by Maureen A. Ryan and executive produced by Megan Ellison.
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Kirsten Johnson 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."
BornOctober 12, 1965
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  • Won 1 Primetime Emmy

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Kirsten Johnson at an event for Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
Kirsten Johnson at an event for Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
Kirsten Johnson
Kirsten Johnson at an event for 32nd Film Independent Spirit Awards (2017)
Kirsten Johnson and Marilyn Ness
Kirsten Johnson
Kirsten Johnson at an event for Cameraperson (2016)

Known for

Dick Johnson in Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
Dick Johnson Is Dead
7.4
  • Producer
  • 2020
Cameraperson (2016)
Cameraperson
7.4
  • Cinematographer(filmed by)
  • 2016
Deadline (2004)
Deadline
7.5
  • Cinematographer
  • 2004
The Oath (2010)
The Oath
7.2
  • Cinematographer
  • 2010

Credits

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Cinematographer

  • Oscar's Comeback
    • Post-production
  • A Thousand Mothers
    • Post-production
  • One Bullet
    • Completed
  • Love Nonnie (2020)
    Love Nonnie
  • Elliott Erwitt: Silence Sounds Good (2019)
    Elliott Erwitt: Silence Sounds Good
  • Museum Town (2019)
    Museum Town
  • A Thousand Thoughts (2018)
    A Thousand Thoughts
  • Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge (2017)
    Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
  • Independent Lens (1999)
    Independent Lens
  • Risk (2016)
    Risk
  • Cameraperson (2016)
    Cameraperson
    • (filmed by)
  • Trapped (2016)
    Trapped
  • The Above (2015)
    The Above
  • Once a Month on Sunday
  • Very Semi-Serious (2015)
    Very Semi-Serious
  • A Woman Like Me (2015)
    A Woman Like Me
  • That Film About Money (2014)
    That Film About Money
  • Citizenfour (2014)
    Citizenfour

Camera and Electrical Department

  • On the Record (2020)
    On the Record
  • Crime + Punishment (2018)
    Crime + Punishment
  • Cradle of Champions (2017)
    Cradle of Champions
  • Atomic Homefront (2017)
    Atomic Homefront
  • 32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide (2017)
    32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide
  • Independent Lens (1999)
    Independent Lens
  • The Armor of Light (2015)
    The Armor of Light
  • Seeds of Time (2013)
    Seeds of Time
  • ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to Stage (2013)
    ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to Stage
  • Women, War & Peace (2011)
    Women, War & Peace
  • Yelling to the Sky (2011)
    Yelling to the Sky
  • Outrage (2009)
    Outrage
  • Damages (2007)
    Damages
  • Welcome Back to the Barrio (2006)
    Welcome Back to the Barrio
  • Red Hook Justice (2005)
    Red Hook Justice

Producer

  • Brooklyn Inshallah (2021)
    Brooklyn Inshallah
  • Dick Johnson in Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
    Dick Johnson Is Dead
  • Mother (2019)
    Mother
  • Risk (2016)
    Risk
  • Cameraperson (2016)
    Cameraperson
  • The Above (2015)
    The Above
  • Field of Vision
  • Citizenfour (2014)
    Citizenfour
  • Deann Borshay, Angela Davis, Peter Dinklage, Dr. Riyadh, Bonita Dearmond, and Mohamed Bangura in P.O.V. (1988)
    P.O.V.
  • William Binney in The Program (2012)
    The Program
  • Waiting for Mercy: The Case Against Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref
  • Election Day (2007)
    Election Day

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Cameraperson
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Cameraperson
Cameraperson
Clip 0:55
Cameraperson
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Official Trailer
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Official Trailer
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Trailer 1:50
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Risk
Trailer 1:28
Risk
No Woman, No Cry
Trailer 1:06
No Woman, No Cry
A Place at the Table
Trailer 2:26
A Place at the Table
Deadline
Trailer 1:28
Deadline

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    • October 12, 1965
    • Seattle, Washington, USA
    • Dick Johnson

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