Take Action

Gather "outtakes" from your own media and use them to create your own memoir. Share the result at a family reunion, holiday gathering or community event. Consider having a group of people create media memoirs and use them to get to know one another better. What sorts of things tend to show up in everyone's footage and what tends to be unique?
Convene a panel of documentarians and/or journalists who use/shoot video. Pose some of the ethics issues raised in the film and ask them to describe the ethical standards that guide their decisions.
Host a screening of one (or more) of the source films for Cameraperson's footage.

The brilliance of Cameraperson is that it invites and rewards such speculation even as its gaze remains fixed on the concrete, deceptively mundane details of the visible, physical world.

— A. O. Scott, The New York Times

Cameraperson testifies to a world in which it would be clear to see that we're all connected, if only we took the time to look at one another with reverence and simply listen

— Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

Cinematographer Kirsten Johnson delivers a uniquely insightful memoir-cum-critical-treatise on the nature and ethics of her craft.

— Nick Schager, Variety

Throughout there is an awareness of a distinct sensibility behind the camera: humane, engaged, unfailingly curious.”

— Mark Feeney, Boston Globe

The movie is an extraordinary self-portrait and an existential statement: I shoot, therefore I am.”

— David Fear, Rolling Stone

Personal footage of Johnson's family and friends, woven into the documentary scenes, enhances the sense that any life is a series of amazements.

— Nikki Baughan, Screen International