Kirsten Johnson
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."
Deadline
(Director)
Citizenfour
(Co-Producer)
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
(Director of Photography)
The Invisible War
(Director of Photography)
Citizenfour
(Director of Photography)
1971
(Director of Photography)
Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
(Director of Photography)
The Above
(Director)
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
(Director of Photography)
Cameraperson
(Director)
The Program
(Producer)
That Film About Money
(Director of Photography)
Cameraperson
(Producer)
The Program
(Director of Photography)
A Photographic Memory
(Executive Producer)
Cameraperson
(Director of Photography)
A Woman Like Me
(Director of Photography)
Sontag
(Screenplay)
Sontag
(Director)
Helen and the Bear
(Executive Producer)
Sabbath Queen
(Cinematography)
The Above
(Producer)
The Viewing Booth
(Executive Producer)
I Came to Testify
(Director of Photography)
Very Semi-Serious
(Director of Photography)
Fahrenheit 9/11
(Additional Camera)
Boys Will Be Girls
(Director of Photography)
Museum Town
(Director of Photography)
Virgin Tales
(Director of Photography)
Cradle of Champions
(Additional Camera)
The Oath
(Director of Photography)
Darfur Now
(Director of Photography)
Two Towns of Jasper
(Additional Camera)
Derrida
(Director of Photography)
Slacker Uprising
(Director of Photography)
Throw Down Your Heart
(Director of Photography)
The Joy of Extreme Possibility
(Director of Photography)
Here One Day
(Director of Photography)
The Above
(Director of Photography)
Fatal Assistance
(Director of Photography)
Dick Johnson Is Dead
(Director)
Dick Johnson Is Dead
(Writer)
Mother
(Executive Producer)
Audrie & Daisy
(Additional Camera)
Buffalo Returns
(Director of Photography)
A Thousand Mothers
(Director of Photography)
Perpetua 664
(Director of Photography)
Il faut que je l'aime
(Director of Photography)
The Edge of Joy
(Additional Camera)
Asylum
(Director of Photography)
The War We Are Living
(Director of Photography)
Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle
(Director of Photography)
Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today
(Director of Photography)
Brother Born Again
(Director of Photography)
Ladies First
(Director of Photography)
American Standoff
(Director of Photography)
Rokia: Voice of a New Generation
(Director of Photography)
Deadline
(Director of Photography)
Risk/Reward
(Additional Photography)
Trembling Before G-d
(Additional Camera)
Ancient Poison, Modern Cure
(Camera Operator)
A Decade Under the Influence
(Additional Camera)
Red Hook Justice
(Director of Photography)
How Much Is Your Life Worth?
(Additional Camera)
Starring Osama Bin Laden
(Camera Operator)
The Venetian Dilemma
(Additional Photography)
Building to Extremes
(Camera Operator)
India
(Camera Operator)
A Nation on Edge
(Camera Operator)
Chasing the Virus
(Camera Operator)
Welcome Back to the Barrio
(Second Assistant Camera)
No Woman, No Cry
(Director of Photography)
Crime + Punishment
(Camera Operator)
Lioness
(Director of Photography)
Yelling To The Sky
(Still Photographer)
Outrage
(Additional Camera)
The Lady Is a Fighting Lion
(Director of Photography)
32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide
(Additional Photography)
On the Record
(Additional Camera)
Election Day
(Director of Photography)
ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to Stage
(Additional Photography)
Seeds of Time
(Camera Operator)
A Place at the Table
(Director of Photography)
The Armor of Light
(Additional Photography)
Project Leap: Learning Out Loud
(Director of Photography)
Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts
(Director of Photography)
Atomic Homefront
(Additional Camera)
Crime Fiction
(Director of Photography)
Risk
(Co-Producer)
Waiting for Mercy: The Case Against Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref
(Editor)
A Thousand Thoughts
(Director of Photography)
Bintou in Paris
(Director)
Once a Month on Sunday
(Director of Photography)
Trapped
(Director of Photography)
Elliott Erwitt - Silence Sounds Good
(Director of Photography)
Innocent Until Proven Guilty
(Director)
Election Day
(Producer)
Risk
(Director of Photography)
Oscar's Comeback
(Director of Photography)
Brooklyn Inshallah
(Consulting Producer)
Waiting for Mercy: The Case Against Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref
(Co-Producer)
The Wound and the Gift
(Director of Photography)
Bintou in Paris
(Screenplay)
The Lady Is a Fighting Lion
(Assistant Editor)
Dick Johnson Is Dead
(Producer)
Dick Johnson Is Dead
(Director of Photography)
Arctic Summer
(Thanks)
Betting on Zero
(Additional Director of Photography)
Heart of America
(Art Direction)
Frontline/World
(Camera Operator)
Innovation: Life, Inspired
(Camera Operator)
Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge
(Director of Photography)
The Hamptons
(Additional Camera)
Science Times
(Camera Operator)
Wide Angle
(Camera Operator)
POV
(Director of Photography)