Cameraperson / Fork Films presents a Big Mouth production ; produced by Marilyn Ness ; a film by Kirsten Johnson ; filmed, produced, and directed by Kirsten Johnson.

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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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Uniform Title:Criterion collection ; 853.
Corporate Authors: Fork Films (Presenter, Production company)
Big Mouth Productions (Production company)
Criterion Collection (Firm) (Publisher)
Other Authors: Johnson, Kirsten (Kirsten Boyd) (Film director, Film producer, director of photography,, on-screen participant.)
Ness, Marilyn (Film producer)
Bangerter, Nels, 1978- (Editor of moving image work)
Language:English
Arabic
Bosnian
Hausa
Persian
Nilo-Saharan (Other)
Language of the Original:
Multiple languages
Language and/or Writing System:
In English, Bosnian, Arabic, Dari, Hausa, and Fur; with optional English subtitles.
Published: [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
Edition:Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 853.
Subjects:
Documentary films > Excerpts.
Cinematographers > United States.
Johnson, Kirsten > (Kirsten Boyd)
Film excerpts.
Documentary films.
Experimental films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Feature films > United States.
Genre:
Excerpts.
Film excerpts.
Documentary films.
Experimental films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Feature films
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Format: Video DVD
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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.
Note:Originally produced in 2016.
Accompanied by a booklet featuring an essay, "Getting close", by filmmaker Michael Almereyda and reprinted writings by Johnson.
"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.
Excerpts from: I came to testify, Audrie and Daisy, Cradle of champions, The edge of joy, Derrida, The way we are living, This very life, Pray the devil back to hell, Citizenfour, Veri semi-serious, Thow down your heart, Two towns of Jasper, The oath, Trapped, Happy valley, Fahrenheit 9/11, The joy of extreme possibility, Buffalo returns, Ladies first, Born to fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. gravity, Darfur now, Virgin tales, Her one day, 1971.
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.
Call Number:TR895.4 .C36 2017 VideoDVD
ISBN:9781681432588
1681432587
Credits:Editor, Nels Bangerter.
System Details:DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1) aspect ratio; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.