Movies: Kirsten Johnson

  • 2016
    Trapped

    Trapped (2016)

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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1969
    Sontag

    Sontag (1969)

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    Biopic on the life of Susan Sontag...

    Sontag
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2012
    Virgin Tales

    Virgin Tales (2012)

    Virgin Tales

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    Evangelical Christians are calling out for a second sexual revolution: chastity. As a counter-movement of the attitudes and practices of today's culture, one in six girls in the US has vowed to remain 'unsoiled' until marriage. But the seven children...

    Virgin Tales
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2008
    Throw Down Your Heart

    Throw Down Your Heart (2008)

    Throw Down Your Heart

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    A film crew follows the well-known banjo player Bela Fleck on his travels to Africa, where he learns about the instrument's origins....

    Throw Down Your Heart
  • 1995
    Bintou in Paris

    Bintou in Paris (1995)

    Bintou in Paris

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    A "fictional documentary" concerning the volatile topic of female excision, Bintou In Paris tells the story of a young Malinese mother faced with the critical decision of whether or not to excise her baby daughter....

    Bintou in Paris
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2003
    Asylum

    Asylum (2003)

    Asylum

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    Baba, a young Ghanaian woman, goes in search of her father for his blessing on her impending marriage. This turns to a nightmare as he insists she a different man, and that she undergo female genital mutilation as is the custom in his tribe. She is f...

    Asylum
  • 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
  • 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