What happens when a filmmaker sets out to portray an artist, but the film refuses to follow the plan?
A filmmaker begins making a film about another artist. She is there to observe, listen, and stay behind the camera. But keeping her distance becomes difficult when the project begins to stir something in her.
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 on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.
