Cameraperson

Kirsten Johnson's experimental memoir-doc revisits two decades of her work on other people's documentaries — Edward Snowden, Yemeni boxing matches, Brooklyn boxing gyms — and finds her own life lurking in every frame. The result is one of the most quietly radical reframings of who actually authors a documentary.

• Footage drawn from documentaries Johnson shot including Citizenfour and Fahrenheit 9/11.
• No traditional structure, organized as a "memoir in fragments".
• Nominated for the Independent Spirit Best Documentary award.
• Johnson's mother's Alzheimer's features as a recurring thread.
• Followed by Johnson's subsequent documentary Dick Johnson Is Dead.

• "Sometimes the camera helps you."
• "I shoot what I cannot say."
• "My mother does not remember me."
• "The boy is going to live."
• "I have been looking for so long."