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“We may not know how we'll leave, but we should know where we came.”
Everyday, there are so many dramatic scenes in the department of gynecology in Zhongnan hospital. This is a real story of 40 families.
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Released
Original Language
ZH
As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.