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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


Say more about what you're sick of.

I'm just sick of it. I'm sick of this.

Here's the poetry announcement

for the poetry books.

I'm sick of this.

I feel like I'm going to get punished.

But I'm sick of it.

I'm sick of all of it. I'm sick of it.

I feel like I'm done.

I'm done with this,

and this.

I'm done with this...

and I'm done with this...

and this and this,

and all of this f***ing stuff!

And all of these,

and that, and that.

And all of these.

Oh, my God!

I totally don't want you to see me.

I just feel like now I have to clean this up.

Now I have to figure out what I'm doing.

I have to get this back in order.

That was crazy!

- Oh, my God.

- I suppose we have the sound of that.

Yeah. Well, we got the image of it too.

Should we go downstairs

and have some bagels, people?

That's a good idea.

Mommy, I want to cover that birdie.

- You want to do what?

- I'm cover that birdie.

You want to cover which birdie?

Birdie close to Grandpa window.

Dead, dead, dead birdie.

- The dead birdie?

- Yeah.

Okay, you want to go

cover the dead birdie?

- Felix.

- Let's go.

I think we have to be Let's be care .

Let's have Grandpa help us, 'cause I don't know

where that bird is and what shape he's in.

- Well, let's see.

- I see it.

- You see it?

- Maybe alive?

Oh, I see it.

It's in pretty bad shape.

Well, Dad's got the bird.

- Dead bird.

- What happened to the bird, guys?

- I touch it.

- Don't touch it, Fizz.

Why?

Because I think there have

been bugs crawling on it, probably, right?

- Yeah, flies.

- Why can Grandpa touch it?

Well, Grandpa's

just holding it by the little leg, see?

Can you see, he's got it by the little leg?

- So should we bury it in the ground, guys?

- Yeah.

- I have gloves.

- You need gloves, Viva?

- Mommy, I wanna put on my shoes.

- You wanna put on your shoes, Viva?

- I'll take care of it.

- No, we want to come with you, Grandpa.

- You want to come with me?

- Yeah, come on, guys. Let's go.

- I have shovel.

- You have a shovel?

- Yeah.

- Where is your shovel?

- Over there.

- Dad.

- Yeah?

- Let's get .

We can bury it under a tree,

don't you think?

If we had a shovel.

Or we could put it in the china closet.

That's a very bad joke.

I think let's just throw it

over there in the bushes.

I'll put it underneath

this rhododendron tree,

and that way it will cause

the rhododendron tree to grow

because it will fertilize it.

- Okay.

- Ashes to ashes.

What's the word?

Ashes to ashes, dirt to dirt.

- Mama! Mama, hey!

- Yeah, Viva?

I want to jump on the air.

- You want to jump on the trampoline?

- I see some newspapers!

Oh, we must get the newspaper.

If on the street you see a dead man,

you cover his face, right?

Why have we to look injured

and dead people on the media?

Because that attract people

and it's good for for advertisement.

It's good for ads.

The question that I have is,

during the refugee crisis, the picture of the

boy who had drowned off the coast of Turkey,

I think that was like a very big turning point

of the public perception of the refugee crisis.

I understand you might disagree,

but I'd like your opinion on that.

When you focus on death, you say,

"It's done. It's finished."

No... There's nothing to do

except voyeurism,

except watch and "Wow!"

So here is the main problem for us.

We have to find a way to represent horror,

to represent death,

respecting the golden rule

dignity.

Is there any one you would show us?

Oh.

I would need to talk to the Byrd family,

but if they'll permit me, I'll introduce

I'll release something on the ankles.

What else you want to talk about?

If you want to take us

through some of the exhibits over here.

Actually, can we pull the chain out?

Can you guys pull it and show it to us?

- These two can.

- Thanks.

Okay.

- Enough?

- Yeah.

- Go ahead. That's good.

- Okay.

Okay.

Ah-ah!

To who?

Oh, man.

K.J., you've been dying to ask one.

Well, I just I mean, that was

kind of amazing what happened to you.

Like when you first started.

Can we, like, come back to the present?

Like, what did that just feel like?

I mean, it seemed like you were

surprised by what you felt like.

Yeah, I was surprised.

Was it surprising to you

I mean, even Yeah.

At points when you go back

to that hallway.

Don't go back to the hallway.

Just now, what happened?

Right now when you sat down

with the keys, like, what just...

- It was amazing. I saw it.

- Yeah.

What was it?

I really don't know how to explain it.

I don't know. Just .

Um .

It was an intense time.

You know? Um .

And, uh...

Um, it just surprises me that it still

gets to me after all these years.

It's just like I don't know

how to describe it other than

when you recall something

that was very intense for you,

especially if you're not, like, expecting,

you don't see it coming.

Um, you just feel this rush of feelings.

It feels like you want to cry,

but you're not really sad.

It's just, like, you know.

And you know, things just start

to cascade, you know.

You remember You remember being anxious.

You remember being angry.

You remember being frustrated.

You remember, um .

You know, all that, um

all the feelings that went along

with that with that time.

The champion, from the gold corner...

He's coming, and he's mad.

I worked f***ing hard!

I worked hard, man!

F***!

F***!

Garcia against Lamont "Havoc" Peterson.

The main event.

That's bullshit! That's f***ing bullshit!

I worked hard!

That was my fight!

You don't know nothing!

Don't touch me! Don't f***ing touch me!

This fight ain't over.

- Yo, yo.

- What?

I'm going to talk to my mother. What?

- Listen to me.

- That's bullshit!

- I worked f***ing hard!

- Yeah, I know.

- I was f***ing him up!

- I've been in that position, buddy.

You've been in that position.

How the f*** you gonna rob me like that?

Hey, let me go.

You did a great job. Look at me.

You should've had that.

Don't get mad.

There's a lot of people watching.

Control yourself. Let's go in the back.

The world is watching.

Will he just tell me what it is, or .

There it is.

So, I wanted to tell you a story.

When, you know, we were making this film

about really serious stories of the war

and everything,

and when I came home to New York,

I, um

I It's hard to tell this story to you.

Yeah.

I I, um

I got the copy of the other movie

we were making, and I didn't watch it.

I just gave it to a friend.

And I said,

"Oh, you're going to love this movie,

'cause it's all about blueberries

and this land."

And then when she saw it, she said,

"Why didn't you tell me

it was about all these terrible things?"

And I completely blocked it out.

- So I can kind of...

- You know the story.

They are really happy that actually,

you brought these memories back,

and they stay in your mind,

because they are also happy

to see you coming back, and they are .

You can kind of record our kids now

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