Kirsten Johnson

A boxing match in Brooklyn, life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina, the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife, an intimate family moment at home -- these scenes and others are woven into "Cameraperson," a tapestry of footage captured over the twenty-five-year career of documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson.

As her father nears the end of his life, filmmaker Kirsten Johnson stages his death in inventive and comical ways to help them both face the inevitable.

The Arc of Oblivion explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Including interviews with documentarians Werner Herzog and Kirsten Johnson - The Arc of Oblivion reveals how nature inspires the human drive behind filmmaking, and illuminates the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory.