Documentarian/cinematographer Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson, Dick Johnson is Dead) leads a two-part collaborative lecture/workshop event that will provide both a window into and a participatory project related to her unique and evolving documentary methodologies.

The first session, Images for Ideas, will take place via Zoom on Thursday Dec. 2nd @ 8pm. The second part of the series will be held in the spring semester 2022. Both sessions will utilize submissions by School of Art students as a springboard for a discussion of images as conceptual groundwork in pre-production and intuitive framing device in post-production. The two-part event is open to the University.

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Kirsten Johnson recently won a primetime Emmy for Directing for DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD. The film premiered at Sundance 2020 where it won the Jury Prize for Innovation in Nonfiction Storytelling. The film won The Critics Choice Award for Best Director and Best Documentary Feature, made the Oscar shortlist and was nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. Her previous film, CAMERAPERSON, premiered at Sundance 2016, was shortlisted for an Academy Award, won the National Board of Review “Freedom of Expression” prize, and won three 2017 Cinema Eye Honors. Kirsten’s camerawork has appeared in the Academy Award-winning CITIZEN FOUR, Cannes Premiere RISK, Academy Award-nominated THE INVISIBLE WAR, Tribeca Documentary winner, PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL, Cannes winner FAHRENHEIT 9/11. Kirsten is one of the 5% of women in the ASC (American Society of Cinematographers).

Open to the Yale community.

Sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism.

Poster design by Mike Tully, Graphic Design MFA '22.