Cameraperson (2016)
A collection of mesmerizing moments of recorded reality from Johnson's 25-year career as a documentary cinematographer.
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Cameraperson belongs to 14 collections
1. Criterion Collection (public: moderated by caffe - 155 stars)
2. Female Directors (public: moderated by djross - 83 stars)
3. Documentaries about movies (public: moderated by djross - 19 stars)
4. Photography (public: moderated by Ag0stoMesmer - 5 stars)
5. Indiewire's 100 Best Movies of the 2010s (public: moderated by offlineoz - 4 stars)
6. Autobiographical documentary (public: moderated by djross - 3 stars)
7. Best by different standards (private: sesito71 - 3 stars)
8. Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) (private: PepeCamello - 2 stars)
9. 2016 Films to Watch (private: kendell - 1 star)
10. Best of 2016 (private: kendell - 1 star)
11. The AV Club's 100 Best Movies of the 2010s (private: TychoCelchuu - 1 star)
12. 2016 @ the Movies (private)
13. DP - NEED TO WATCH (private: SeaSnek)
14. F (private: Johnny Mo)
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| Nov 03, 2020 |  |
capodelnulla | 85 90% |
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johnson is just an incredible observer. I can imagine myself tuning out probably 10 minutes into in any other documentary of this type but every footage manages to create some sense of curiosity throughout cameraperson. it manages to be very personal yet very accessible as johnson is so expressive without uttering a single word. immensely evocative.
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SpecUsame | 80 55% |
| Sep 05, 2020 | nunobar | 60 39% |
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| Jul 19, 2020 | JPFerguson | 85 87% |
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In making this film, Johnson has created a very personal and compelling audio-visual tapestry that not only captures what one imagines to be the essence of doing cinematography, but which also acts as a powerful historical record of the way in which some things change (for good or bad) and other things stay the same (for good or bad). This applies as much to the personal as to the public.
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| Dec 11, 2019 | fortyfive33 | 47 5% |
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The challenge, then, is not only in the pacing and editing but also in selecting compelling footage. On this first point, Cameraperson largely succeeds. What hobbles Cameraperson is that most of the footage, both in isolation and in context, isn’t very compelling.
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| Nov 26, 2019 |  |
Alex Watkins | 5 91% |
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The moving image as memoir. Our investment in Johnson and the people and places she chooses to capture is inseparable from her decision to share them with us; by seeing through her eyes, we're forced to consider what an endless ocean of feelings and memories another person is. These images will have to suffice instead.
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| Nov 22, 2019 | timalander | 81 39% |
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cascade | 69 60% |
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| Jul 20, 2019 | z4k1r | 83 77% |
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| Jul 05, 2019 | zkas1225 | 65 36% |
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DMCrimson | 80 61% |
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An interesting collection of unique experiences but not necessarily one with a broader message or theme, much like life itself.
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kendell | 7 58% |
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| Dec 04, 2018 | Dennis-47 | 85 81% |
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worrywirt | 80 75% |
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AFlickering | 4 62% |
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its conflicted ontology is cinema's, right there in the title, and johnson's awareness of such is demonstrated by her chosen derrida quote, said offhand as they cross the road together: “she sees everything and she's totally blind, like the philosopher who falls in the well while looking at the stars”. i love that the defining piece on this was penned by michael almereyda, who places it in the lineage of marker and vertov.
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MaxVonSydow | 80 89% |
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| Apr 23, 2018 | chone | 50 28% |
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cowfrappe | 78 83% |
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Mesmerizing and somehow both sprawling & intimate.
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| Mar 25, 2018 | alfieg | 90 93% |
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| Nov 13, 2017 | DocTay | 83 90% |
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mandy | 6 45% |
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It is what it claims to be a collection of moving, life affirming, sometimes terrifying moments caught on camera.
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| Sep 24, 2017 |  |
glumpy_99 | 97 92% |
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Riveting, quietly profound documentary assembles 25 years worth of off-cuts from Johnson's archives - the pieces and moments initially don't seem to fit together, but gradually a thoughtful, extraordinarily moving narrative emerges -- in revealing these snatches of seemingly unimportant scenes, Johnson crafts an empathetic view of lives being lived, both on-screen and behind the camera, leading to a devastating sequence involving Johnson's own mother. A unique and unforgettable experience.
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| Sep 18, 2017 | DocJ | 76 59% |
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filmaffinity | 63 56% |
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That's some memories! The film takes some patience to behold, it works nicely as a ambiance piece for relaxing, and once in a while something special comes up, like the moments with her mother dealing with Alzheimers and that baby gasping for air. I'm not a major fan of these random montage pieces, but Kirsten Johnson's experiences as a camerawoman kept my attention.
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Judo Koala | 84 87% |
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Intensely personal, oft times uncomfortably so. Documentary as much as it is essayist, Johnson deftly interrogates human connection, voyeurism, the cinematic apparatus, reality, and narrative with a tremendously humanist eye for the world. Much of fascination and emotion can be found in the "banal" of the world, indeed.
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| Feb 13, 2017 | Diggler | 68 40% |
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Icarus | 84 75% |
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Filled with sharp, beautiful images of landscapes but especially people from around the world, the film on its surface looks like little more than a pastiche of edited together footage. But its overall impact is something much greater, pointing us toward empathy and understanding of the other, even as it remains a deeply personal record of Johnson's work over the years.
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| Feb 10, 2017 | donquixotic | 40 22% |
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I'm sure there's a good film in here somewhere but it's not for me, it seems symptomatic of a style of documentary making that demands that you the viewer fill in the gaps - it's like jazz, you've got to listen to the notes not being played
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astrakhan | 60 6% |
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Not my cup of tea. I can see why a person would put random B-roll footage together to justify its existence and document their career in some way, but I can't see any meaning in combining this footage or in releasing it to the world. Some of the scenes give us an insight into who's behind the camera, in a way that is absent in traditional features and documentaries, which is mildly interesting but hardly intimate. I'd know more about camera operating if I went out with my own for an hour or two.
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FutureCritic | 84 73% |
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wetwillies | 80 36% |
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Viewed December 19, 2016.
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| Dec 06, 2016 | schedrevka | 85 46% |
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Phelipe | 91 90% |
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Kerc | 24 77% |
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Staggering. On a basic level, all the leftover footage it already make for compelling mini-narratives on their own (esp. the breech birth sequence), but then you see how all these chunks of narrative have been edited together and how it represents the documentarian & their relationship to their subject, their influences (one sequence functions as a mini-Night & Fog), modern geopolitics, what's filmed & what is allowed to be filmed, etc. A heady documentary that needs to be picked at.
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| Sep 09, 2016 | filmcricket | 89 98% |
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| Apr 28, 2016 | theficionado | 88 87% |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Technician. More fruitfully, Cameraperson is a film that sort of unlocks the black box of the documentary form, to reveal the moments of serendipity and filmmaking choices that inform these films' construction -- and of the moments and choices that don't, because they're perhaps too "authentic," because they subvert the illusion of narrative cohesion and disembodied objectivity.
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| Apr 17, 2016 |  |
Actionberg | 90 92% |
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Great documentaries tend to have one or two magical moments in them where a decisive moment in reality is captured just right. This is pretty much a 90-minute collection of such moments from one person's perspective shot all over the world. It's an incredible watch.
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| Average Percentile 65.36% from 147 Ratings |  |
