I really enjoyed watching “Cameraperson.” I think it was beautifully filmed and I love how Kirsten Johnson decided to cut the scenes and spread it out. For example, she mentions in the first image that what we are about to see are all the images that left her wondering but she does a great job with that to leave to audience wondering as well. The first segment I think of when I think of that is when she films the boxer. The first scene we see with him is him getting prepared but then it is cut and we do not see more. As the audience, all we want is to see what happens next, if he wins or not but Kirsten Johnson comes back to that much later in her film, therefore leaving the audience wondering for a while what might happen. Even with other scenes, it sometimes take a little while to fully understand what is going on in the frame or more what it means. For example, when she is in Afghanistan, it takes a while for us to be introduced to the fact that this is not some random landscape but where the soldiers are, in the prison. I think it makes it much more powerful that we find out about it a little bit later than right away when we are introduced to the scene. Overall, I really enjoyed the film and how it was created: the filmmaker did not think it needed a voice over and yet we understand everything she feels in those moments.
