Kirsten Johnson: Cameraperson
I have not seen the film yet, but I will, with high expectations because I have heard about it for several years from the maker and have had the privilege to tutor with Kirsten Johnson a couple of times, in Beirut and Jeddah, enjoying her enthusiasm and commitment; she is one who gives to younger colleagues, and now she brings young and old her film about being a travelling documentary cameraperson.
In the realscreen newsletter I received yesterday, Kevin Ritchie has made an interview with Kirsten Johnson, to be strongly recommended, ethical questions are seldom raised, and this is not only for camerapersons. Here is a quote:
… we used to be able to control where the image went and we can’t do it any more. That has different implications to the people we film and even to us as filmmakers. It sent me back into thinking about other situations in which there have been questions around permission and complicity, or where time has changed the meaning of things, so it started bringing up memories of things I had filmed, where we had question marks about choices we’d made. That’s when I reached out to different directors and asked to look at footage to see how far was the space between what I remembered and what was actually in the footage…
Read more: http://realscreen.com/2016/03/18/sxsw-16-cameraperson-turns-lens-on-cinematographer/#ixzz43HtDrdaz
