Movies: Kirsten Johnson

  • 2013
    Seeds of Time

    Seeds of Time (2013)

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    Seeds of Time follows agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler's global journey to save the eroding foundation of our food supply in a new era of climate change....

    Seeds of Time
  • 2009
    Waiting for Mercy: The Case Against Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref

    Waiting for Mercy: The Case Against Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref (2009)

    Waiting for Mercy: The Case Against Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref

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    This documentary tells the story of an FBI sting that took place in Albany in 2004. The idea was to entrap Yassin Aref, 37 and Mohammed Hossain, 51. In 2006, the two men were sentenced to 15 years in prison. The documentary asks; was this sting a set...

    Waiting for Mercy: The Case Against Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref
  • 1999
    Innocent Until Proven Guilty

    Innocent Until Proven Guilty (1999)

    Innocent Until Proven Guilty

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    James Forman, a 31-year-old public defender and son of a civil rights leader, provides representation for black youth in Washington, D.C., who can't afford their own attorneys in this riveting documentary that goes inside the criminal justice system....

    Innocent Until Proven Guilty
  • 2012
    Here One Day

    Here One Day (2012)

    Here One Day

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    When filmmaker Kathy Leichter moved back into her childhood home after her mother's suicide, she discovered a hidden box of audiotapes. Sixteen years passed before she had the courage to delve into this trove, unearthing details that her mother had r...

    Here One Day
  • 2014
    Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity

    Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity (2014)

    Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity

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    Born to Fly pushes the boundaries between action and art, daring us to join choreographer Elizabeth Streb and her dancers in pursuit of human flight....

    Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
  • 2017
    In the Service of the Film

    In the Service of the Film (2017)

    In the Service of the Film

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    The following roundtable conversation features director Kirsten Johnson along with documentary filmmaker Gini Reticker and sound recordists Wellington Bowler and Judy Karp, frequent collaborators of Jonhson’s whose work is featured in CAMERAPERSON. I...

    In the Service of the Film
  • 2003
    Boys Will Be Girls

    Boys Will Be Girls (2003)

    Boys Will Be Girls

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    For these lipstick Cinderella's, balls are a real drag. With their duct tape D-Cups, these torch songbirds crown the drag queen within. From dudes to divas, these boys will be girls....

    Boys Will Be Girls
  • 2013
    Fatal Assistance

    Fatal Assistance (2013)

    Fatal Assistance

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    Haitian born filmmaker Raoul Peck takes us on a 2-year journey inside the challenging, contradictory and colossal rebuilding efforts in post-earthquake Haiti....

    Fatal Assistance
  • 2014
    That Film About Money

    That Film About Money (2014)

    That Film About Money

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    What is the real value of a dollar? You think that a dollar bill is money and that banks are where your cash is stored and safeguarded. Well, you’re wrong. Like, really wrong....

    That Film About Money
  • 2014
    The Wound and the Gift

    The Wound and the Gift (2014)

    The Wound and the Gift

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    The Gift is a feature-length film exploring a major transformation in peoples' relationships with animals....

    The Wound and the Gift
  • 2024
    Helen and the Bear

    Helen and the Bear (2024)

    Helen and the Bear

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    As her storied and rebellious Congressman husband enters his final years, civil rights activist Helen H. McCloskey reflects on their unusual decades-long relationship, the pressure of living in the public eye, and what the two of them had to leave be...

    Helen and the Bear
  • 2015
    A Woman Like Me

    A Woman Like Me (2015)

    A Woman Like Me

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    A WOMAN LIKE ME is a hybrid documentary that interweaves the real story of director Alex Sichel, diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2011, with the fictional story of Anna Seashell, who struggles to find the glass half full when faced with the...

    A Woman Like Me
  • 2020
    The Viewing Booth

    The Viewing Booth (2020)

    The Viewing Booth

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    Provocative in its cinematic simplicity, THE VIEWING BOOTH recounts an encounter between a filmmaker and a viewer, exploring the way meaning is attributed to non-fiction images in today's day and age....

    The Viewing Booth
  • 2007
    Crime Fiction

    Crime Fiction (2007)

    Crime Fiction

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    Will you kill for a good story? If you are James Cooper, a 28 year old copy editor with dreams of literary stardom, you will. After all, your girlfriend was just crowned the "voice of a new America" by the New York literati, and you waste your days e...

    Crime Fiction
  • 2016
    The Joy of Extreme Possibility

    The Joy of Extreme Possibility (2016)

    The Joy of Extreme Possibility

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    Work in progress....

    The Joy of Extreme Possibility
  • 2015
    The Above

    The Above (2015)

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    A U.S. military surveillance balloon floats on a tether high above Kabul, Afghanistan. Its capacities are both highly classified and deeply mysterious....

    The Above
  • 2003
    Risk/Reward

    Risk/Reward (2003)

    Risk/Reward

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    A 2003 documentary film about women on Wall Street following the lives of four Wall Street women - a research analyst, a currency trader, an NYSE floor broker and a rookie investment banker....

    Risk/Reward
  • 2001
    Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today

    Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today (2001)

    Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today

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    Journey To The West is a contemporary exploration of the ways in which Chinese medicine - including acupuncture and herbal remedies - is being practiced today....

    Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today
  • 2015
    Very Semi-Serious

    Very Semi-Serious (2015)

    Very Semi-Serious

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    The New Yorker is the benchmark for the single-panel cartoon. This light-hearted and sometimes poignant look at the art and humor of the iconic drawings shows why they have inspired and even baffled us for decades. Very Semi-Serious is a window into ...

    Very Semi-Serious
  • 2007
    How Much Is Your Life Worth?

    How Much Is Your Life Worth? (2007)

    How Much Is Your Life Worth?

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    Documentary looking at the work of the attorneys and adjusters involved in cases of wrongful death, a moving and enlightening story of how tragedy and injustice are computed and integrated into financial considerations that make it impossible to give...

    How Much Is Your Life Worth?