Cameraperson

„She sees everything, we are blind“, says the philosopher Jacques Derrida about the person who accompanies him wherever he goes. Kirsten Johnson has been travelling the world as a camerawoman for the past 25 years: she criss-crossed America with Michael Moore collecting images for FAHRENHEIT 9/11, filmed in the crisis-hit Sudan for DARFUR NOW and visited victims of the Bosnian War for I CAME TO TESTIFY. As poetic as it is emotional, the collage film CAMERAPERSON reveals what none of these films can: what moves the woman behind the camera, the encounters that arose and how the world looks through a viewfinder. What does it mean to film? Or to be filmed? The look of a newborn baby gasping for air, the emotions of a boxer after losing a fight, laughing children tapping on the microphone. CAMERAPERSON is a deeply moving essay about filmmaking and the absurdity that is called life.