Cameraperson /
A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home with the director: Kirsten Johnson weaves these scenes and others into her film, a tapestry of footage captured over her twenty-five-year career as a documen...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English Arabic Bosnian Hausa Persian Nilo-Saharan |
| Published: |
[New York] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Director-approved two-DVD special edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
853. |
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| Summary: | A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home with the director: Kirsten Johnson weaves these scenes and others into her film, a tapestry of footage captured over her twenty-five-year career as a documentary cinematographer. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frame. "For the past 25 years I've worked as a documentary cinematographer. I originally shot the following footage for other films, but here I ask you to see it as my memoir. These are the images that have marked me and leave me wondering still"--Opening frame. Originally produced in 2016. Special features: New high-definition digital master; Editing 'Cameraperson,' a new program featuring director Kirsten Johnson, producers Marilyn Ness and Danielle Varga, and editors Nels Bangerter and Amanda Laws; In the Service of the Film, a roundtable conversation with Johnson, producer Gini Reticker, and sound recordists Wellington Bowler and Judy Karp; Excerpts from two 2016 film festival talks with Johnson, including one between her and filmmaker Michael Moore; The Above, a 2015 short film by Johnson; Trailer; and an essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda and reprinted writings by Johnson. |
| Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 pages) |
| Format: | DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1) aspect ratio; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround. |
| Production Credits: | Editor, Nels Bangerter. |
| ISBN: | 9781681432588 1681432587 |