Kirsten Johnson: Searching the Frame, Exposing a Vision

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Since 1990, Kirsten Johnson has traveled the world, shooting and directing independent documentaries. She began her artistic career as an undergraduate at Brown University, where she studied painting, political science, and comparative literature. Johnson recalls “trying to put visual things together with political things ... by making these terrible paintings with words in them. It wasn’t quite working!” After graduating, she traveled to Africa to meet two Senegalese filmmakers, Ousmane Sembene and Djibril Diop Mambetty, whose work she was interested in. While in Africa, ...

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