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Synopsis: A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home: these scenes and others are woven into Cameraperson, a tapestry of footage collected over the twenty-five-year career of documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson. Through a series of episodic juxtapositions, Johnson explores the relationships between image makers and their subjects, the tension between the objectivity and intervention of the camera, and the complex interaction of unfiltered reality and crafted narrative. A hybrid work that combines documentary, autobiography, and ethical inquiry, Cameraperson is both a moving glimpse into one filmmaker's personal journey and a thoughtful examination of what it means to train a camera on the world.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Kirsten Johnson
Production: Fork Films
  23 wins & 37 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
86
Rotten Tomatoes:
99%
NOT RATED
Year:
2016
102 min
$101,074
Website
157 Views


Yes, we used that.

Uh...

That's amazing.

Wow!

It's like magic.

Aw.

Look at her hands.

Dobra.

Thank you so much.

Ah, this is so good!

Oh, geez.

Oh, Jesus.

Can everyone clear out of my light?

That would be great.

Pennsylvania!

Pennsylvania!

Our community and many others

have faced extreme difficulty

and profound sadness.

We ask at this time that we all pause

and together take part

in a moment of reflection

and to especially consider

all victims of childhood sexual abuse

and those who've endured

suffering and loss.

You are in our hearts today.

For the glory of old State

For her founders strong and great

For the future that we wait

Raise the song, raise the song

Sing our love and loyalty

Sing our hopes that bright and free

Rest, O Mother dear, with thee

All with thee, all with thee

When we stood at childhood's gate

Shapeless in the hands of fate

Thou didst mold us, dear old State

Dear old State, dear old State

May no act of ours bring shame

To one heart that loves thy name

May our lives but swell thy fame

Dear old State

Dear old State

Thank you, guys.

- Thank you. Thank you.

- That was great.

Disconnected. Gave me dial tone.

Completely disconnected.

I can hear you.

Well, we were not actually

inside the court,

but we were able to watch

what was happening inside

through CCTV screens that were put up

inside the media filing center,

where we are all working from,

all the journalists covering this trial.

So, um, we could hear...

- You all right, Kirsten?

- I'm havin' a ball.

Okay.

Left! Left! Left, right, left!

Left! Left! Left, right, left!

Back in 1775!

Back in 1775!

My marine corps came alive!

My marine corps came alive!

It's hard to talk when you're running.

I don't know if you've ever tried that.

You know what I'm saying? Is that okay?

Is this really, or should I .

A little bit here more

so his eyeline stays a little bit .

There you go. Great.

The military gave us .

They gave us what's called a media card.

It's a card that tells you pretty much

what you can and cannot say to the media.

It says that you can't say anything bad

about the military.

Don't point your opinions on

on the political side of it

and definitely don't give up

any classified information

or talk about your operations.

Just tell 'em like, "Hi, I'm all right."

That's pretty much it.

You really You really can't

say anything outside of that.

Are you expected to be called back?

I believe so.

Our commanding officer has said

it's not about "if" as "when."

Mm-hmm. And are you gonna go back?

No.

- You're not?

- No.

What repercussions do you face

if you don't?

It's possible jail time.

That's one possible thing.

- Are you willing to risk that?

- Yes.

Yes, I will not let my person

I will not let anyone send me back

over there to kill other poor people.

Especially when they pose no threat

to me and my country.

I'd hate to see you get into any trouble,

you know.

Oh, yeah, man. Me too.

- I don't want to see you in jail or anything.

- Oh, yeah.

Do you have a lawyer?

Do you have any help or...

No, not at this point, no.

Well, you know, we'll see what we can do

if you need any help.

Okay.

I don't want this to be the end of this

being in touch with you here.

All right, so, yeah, stop it like that.

We'll throw it in and we'll start it.

Okay. Ready?

Go!

If you have two quantum pieces

of matter like elementary particles

that are produced at the same time,

they have certain quantum properties

associated with them.

And if you move one off

to infinite distance

or, you know, just arbitrary far away,

if you do an experiment on the other one,

then the one that's far away

will react instantly,

as if you had been doing

the experiment on it.

And yet, it's so far away

that it would take the speed of light

thousands of years to reach it.

You can entangle across time, you can

entangle into the future, in the past.

You can entangle through space.

That's what quantum entanglement means.

It means that there's another

underlying layer of nature

that we haven't discovered yet.

- I feel entangled with you already.

- Yeah.

Aha! Great!

- Can you see, you guys? Yeah.

- Uh-huh.

Dobra!

Thanks! Good Ping-Pong players.

Dobra, dobra!

Tell me things

you remember about your brother.

Do you ever see these things

when you're dreaming?

Excuse me?

- I haven't got you. Excuse me.

- Yeah.

No, you're you're...

- It's hurting, yeah.

- Yeah.

So... this is I am disabled.

I woke up sometimes

and I'm hearing voice saying,

"You need to do something

for women who have been raped."

And I'm saying like, "Yes, I will, I will."

It's just, we basically talk

about the fact

that actually nobody

we never go through our own trauma.

We are just putting things

inside of ourselves

by thinking this is something

what we need to do.

It's work, but it's really heavy work

because after you see thousands

of stories and putting in yourself,

what is your channel to let it go?

So...

Yeah, it makes me a little bit

a little bit angry, yes, it does.

But I mean, I couldn't choose

where I will be born

and what what will happen, so...

How has Ramadan been?

Ramadan has been good?

This is a camp in Zalingei.

So if we can get him in the foreground

and those women chopping down the tree

in the background.

And then can we

get them in the foreground?

- They had to bring the the

- Firewood.

Yeah, because she said

they call them bastards.

She said that?

I want to change the subject

and ask if she was always

such a great dresser.

- What are you doing?

- Thomas puffed proudly.

- What's that?

- Speak up, Thomas.

I'm sorry, sir. Excuse me, ma'am.

Perhaps we could find

a grand and tall Christmas tree for the .

So, with a clink and a clank,

two flatbeds were fixed.

Look at all these lovely hats!

There's something a grandma

can never have enough of.

He could blow down a house made of bricks.

But he couldn't blow down

the house made of

God on high

And in you

There's no shadow

So thankful you've been so kind

Oh, so faithful

From age to age

Oh, you remain the same

Holy and

Holy, holy

Oh, my God is holy

Holy, holy, holy

Oh, I believe

Holy, holy, holy

Holy

From age to age, you remain the same

From age to age

You remain the same

Oh, you are holy

You remain the same

You remain the same

Worthy are you, my Jesus

I bless your name for you're holy

She couldn't let go of things.

Look at all the stuff she saved.

She didn't save one.

"Kiss me, I have a mental

disability" button.

She saved...

you know, a hundred of them.

I mean, I'm glad I have one... to film...

but, like, I don't need this many.

I think the other thing about being angry

is, like, if you were too angry,

like, you might not

you might not come back.

Like, that you .

You know,

that you could lose it emotionally

and then, like, not really regain...

But... like you wouldn't come out of it.

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