Films & Events

As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.

Before the film there will be a few short films screened:

Removed | Dir. Naomi Uman, 8 mins

Description

Using a piece of found European porn from the 1970s, nail polish and bleach, this film creates a new pornography, one in which the woman exists only as a hole, an empty, animated space. 

Things We Swallow | Dir. Carleen Maur, 4 mins

Description

A dissection of the phases of holding (or not) onto composure while challenging gender norms. 

Lie Back and Enjoy it | Dir. JoAnn Elam, 8 mins

Description

Lie Back & Enjoy It is a dialectical film about the politics of representation. Its image track consists of technologically manipulated images of women, and some printed titles. Its soundtrack consists of a dialogue between a Man (a filmmaker) and a Woman (of whom he’s going to make a film). 

2016. 102 min.