Monday, March 28, 2016

Film: Cameraperson by Kirsten Johnson, 2016



Bits of footage from Kirsten Johnson's long career as a cameraperson for numerous films, shot around the world, have been edited together to make her own feature film called Cameraperson. It is largely a roller coaster ride through intimacy - with people and places - that have experienced extreme violence or life's most difficult decisions or corruptions. It has the sense of "revisiting" at a later time, when spring has returned and the fields are planted once again. The memory of trauma lies hidden in the place - but we can guess only barely hidden in the heart and mind of the Cameraperson.