Movies: Kirsten Johnson

  • 2019
    Elliott Erwitt - Silence Sounds Good

    Elliott Erwitt - Silence Sounds Good (2019)

    Elliott Erwitt - Silence Sounds Good

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    Elliott Erwitt has spent his entire adult life taking photographs, of presidents, popes and movie stars, as well as regular people and their pets. His work is iconic in world culture while his life is largely unknown....

    Elliott Erwitt - Silence Sounds Good
  • 2024
    A Photographic Memory

    A Photographic Memory (2024)

    A Photographic Memory

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    A filmmaker ventures into the archives of her photographer mother to construct a personal story of love, loss, and finding someone in the work they leave behind....

    A Photographic Memory
  • 2007
    Darfur Now

    Darfur Now (2007)

    Darfur Now

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    This acclaimed documentary follows the story of six people who are determined to end the sufferings in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur. The six - an American activist, an international prosecutor, a Sudanese rebel, a sheikh, a leader of the World Food Pro...

    Darfur Now
  • 2004
    Deadline

    Deadline (2004)

    Deadline

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    In 2000, Illinois Gov. George Ryan ordered a moratorium on the death penalty after university students uncovered new evidence proving the innocence of 13 men on death row. This documentary follows the hearings held by a panel Ryan appointed to study ...

    Deadline
  • 2014
    1971

    1971 (2014)

    1971

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    Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plotted an intricate break-in to the local FBI offices to leak stolen documents and expose the illegal surveillance of ordinary Americans in an ...

    1971
  • 2017
    Atomic Homefront

    Atomic Homefront (2017)

    Atomic Homefront

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    Revealing St. Louis, Missouri's atomic past as a uranium processing center for the atomic bomb and the governmental and corporate negligence that lead to the illegal dumping of Manhattan Project radioactive waste throughout North County neighborhoods...

    Atomic Homefront
  • 2009
    Outrage

    Outrage (2009)

    Outrage

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    An indictment of closeted politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation in the US....

    Outrage
  • 2002
    Derrida

    Derrida (2002)

    Derrida

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    Documentary about French philosopher (and author of deconstructionism) Jacques Derrida, who sparked fierce debate throughout American academia....

    Derrida
  • 2010
    No Woman, No Cry

    No Woman, No Cry (2010)

    No Woman, No Cry

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    Women all over the world must struggle to receive proper care in order to survive pregnancy and childbirth....

    No Woman, No Cry
  • 2016
    Cameraperson

    Cameraperson (2016)

    Cameraperson

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    As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation...

    Cameraperson
  • 2015
    The Armor of Light

    The Armor of Light (2015)

    The Armor of Light

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    Following the journey of an Evangelical minister trying to find the courage to preach about the growing toll of gun violence in America. Reverend Rob Schenck, anti-abortion activist and fixture on the political far right, breaks with orthodoxy by que...

    The Armor of Light
  • 2002
    Two Towns of Jasper

    Two Towns of Jasper (2002)

    Two Towns of Jasper

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    Using two separate filmmaking teams (an all-white crew filming white residents and an all-black camera crew filming black residents), TWO TOWNS OF JASPER captures very different racial views by townsfolk in Jasper, Texas, the location for a racially ...

    Two Towns of Jasper
  • 2017
    32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide

    32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide (2017)

    32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide

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    Traces the life and mental illness of New York artist and photographer Ruth Litoff, and her sister's struggle to come to terms with her tragic suicide....

    32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide
  • 2016
    Trapped

    Trapped (2016)

    Trapped

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    TRAP (Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers) laws have been passed by conservative state legislatures in the US and clinics have taken their fight to the courts. Follow the struggles of the clinic workers and lawyers who are on the front lines o...

    Trapped
  • 2020
    Mother

    Mother (2020)

    Mother

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    In a village in Thailand, Pomm works in a care center for Europeans with Alzheimer's. While she is separated from her children, she helps Elisabeth during the final stages of her life, as Maya, a new patient, is on her way from Switzerland....

    Mother
  • 2021
    Arctic Summer

    Arctic Summer (2021)

    Arctic Summer

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    ARCTIC SUMMER is a poetic meditation on Tuktoyaktuk, an Indigenous community in the Arctic. The film captures Tuk during one of the last summers before climate change forced Tuk's coastal population to relocate to more habitable land....

    Arctic Summer
  • 1969
    Sontag

    Sontag (1969)

    Sontag

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    Biopic on the life of Susan Sontag...

    Sontag
  • 2010
    The Oath

    The Oath (2010)

    The Oath

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    Tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court....

    The Oath
  • 2018
    Cradle of Champions

    Cradle of Champions (2018)

    Cradle of Champions

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    Three extraordinary young people battle to change their lives through the three-month odyssey of the New York Daily News Golden Gloves - the biggest, oldest, most important amateur boxing tournament in the world....

    Cradle of Champions
  • 2018
    Crime + Punishment

    Crime + Punishment (2018)

    Crime + Punishment

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    Over four years of unprecedented access, the story of a brave group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and one unrelenting private investigator who, amidst a landmark lawsuit, risk everything to expose illegal quota practices and their impact on ...

    Crime + Punishment