Non-fiction cinematographer Kirsten Johnson has taken us into the nightmarish depths of the Snowden affair (Citizenfour) or closer to the fate of death row prisoners in the US (Deadline). Yet in more recent first-person films like Cameraperson her gaze turns closer to home, in fact within it, to offer a self-portrait that depicted effects of war in Yemen or Kabul, alongside the devastating impact of Alzheimer’s on her beloved mother. In Dick Johnson is Dead, the camera is devoted to her father, whose very real dementia inspires Kirsten to stage his multiple fake deaths and funeral. Clearly, reality is not always what it seems with Kirsten and in this very special session, she walks us through the detailed dreams that surface in the depths of her documentarian mind to produce that rare blend of intelligence and empathy that characterises her work.
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