Kirsten Johnson Movies

ARCTIC SUMMER is a poetic meditation on Tuktoyaktuk, an Indigenous community in the Arctic. The film captures Tuk during one of the last summers...

Work in progress.

As her storied and rebellious Congressman husband enters his final years, civil rights activist Helen H. McCloskey reflects on their unusual...

A portrait of various gay Orthodox Jews who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexual orientation.

A 2003 documentary film about women on Wall Street following the lives of four Wall Street women - a research analyst, a currency trader, an NYSE...

Using personal stories, this powerful documentary illuminates the plight of the 49 million Americans struggling with food insecurity. A single...

For the past 15 years, a group of accomplished New York women, artists and writers in their eighties and nineties, gather at the Westbeth Artists...

As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that...

The Edge of Joy follows an ensemble cast of Nigerian doctors, midwives and religious leaders as they battle the world's highest maternal mortality...

Journey To The West is a contemporary exploration of the ways in which Chinese medicine - including acupuncture and herbal remedies - is being...

Few can resist Venice's magical allure, but with more than 14 million visitors a year, Italy's glorious city of canals faces a number of threats....

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,...

Native American Natural Foods is one of the only private enterprises on the Pine Ridge Reservation. When their new energy bar gains national...

The Gift is a feature-length film exploring a major transformation in peoples' relationships with animals.

Revealing St. Louis, Missouri's atomic past as a uranium processing center for the atomic bomb and the governmental and corporate negligence that...

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...

What is the real value of a dollar? You think that a dollar bill is money and that banks are where your cash is stored and safeguarded. Well,...

Baba, a young Ghanaian woman, goes in search of her father for his blessing on her impending marriage. This turns to a nightmare as he insists she a...