Kirsten Johnson Filmes

  • 2018
    ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016

    ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016

    ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016

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    Made from footage captured at Brooklyn’s BAMcinemafest in June 2016 in which filmmakers were left alone in a hotel with a camera and a...

    ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016
  • 2003
    A Nation on Edge

    A Nation on Edge

    A Nation on Edge

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    A Nation on Edge
  • 2011
    Yelling To The Sky

    Yelling To The Sky

    Yelling To The Sky

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    As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.

    Yelling To The Sky
  • 2024
    A Photographic Memory

    A Photographic Memory

    A Photographic Memory

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    A filmmaker ventures into the archives of her photographer mother to construct a personal story of love, loss, and finding someone in the work they...

    A Photographic Memory
  • 2003
    Heart of America

    Heart of America

    Heart of America

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    It is the last day of high school and the unthinkable is about to happen. Distraught at the constant abuse and bullying they have been subjected to,...

    Heart of America
  • 2007
    Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts

    Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts

    Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts

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    This film follows students, staff and parents through the first four years of the High School for Contemporary Arts, an experimental "small school"...

    Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts
  • 2006
    This Film Is Not Yet Rated

    This Film Is Not Yet Rated

    This Film Is Not Yet Rated

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    Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates...

    This Film Is Not Yet Rated
  • 2003
    Rokia: Voice of a New Generation

    Rokia: Voice of a New Generation

    Rokia: Voice of a New Generation

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    Documentary about the life and career of Rokia Traoré, a musician from Mali, an African country, who is one of the few women in her country,...

    Rokia: Voice of a New Generation
  • 2013
    Seeds of Time

    Seeds of Time

    Seeds of Time

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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...

    Seeds of Time
  • 2012
    Virgin Tales

    Virgin Tales

    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...

    Virgin Tales
  • 1994
    Il faut que je l'aime

    Il faut que je l'aime

    Il faut que je l'aime

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    A young woman named Juliette reminisces a series of recent confrontations. We hear, off-screen, the voices of her loved ones, her mother, her former...

    Il faut que je l'aime
  • 2004
    Building to Extremes

    Building to Extremes

    Building to Extremes

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    Building to Extremes
  • 2017
    In the Service of the Film

    In the Service of the Film

    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...

    In the Service of the Film
  • 2018
    Cradle of Champions

    Cradle of Champions

    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,...

    Cradle of Champions
  • 2001
    Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle

    Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle

    Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle

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    Documentary about the effects of market economy and globalization on director Raoul Peck's homeland, Haiti.

    Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle
  • 2015
    A Woman Like Me

    A Woman Like Me

    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,...

    A Woman Like Me
  • 2012
    Here One Day

    Here One Day

    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...

    Here One Day
  • 2008
    Throw Down Your Heart

    Throw Down Your Heart

    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
  • 2016
    The Joy of Extreme Possibility

    The Joy of Extreme Possibility

    The Joy of Extreme Possibility

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    Work in progress.

    The Joy of Extreme Possibility
  • 2015
    Very Semi-Serious

    Very Semi-Serious

    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...

    Very Semi-Serious