The Lucy Molnar Wing Lecture Series: Kirsten Johnson

Courtesy of Kirsten Johnson

Kirsten Johnson: We are all camerapeople now
Lucy Molnar Wing Lecture Series 2024

November 12, 2024 | 7 – 8:30 pm
Eaton Theatre, Rogers Communication Centre
Toronto Metropolitan University
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Please join us for an opportunity to meet Kirsten Johnson, the award-winning cinematographer, director and producer, most well known for her Netflix breakout hit Dick Johnson is Dead. In his review of the film in the Guardian, Charles Bramesco heralds Johnson as one of the most radical documentary film makers of her day:

“We’re living in boom times for non-fiction cinema, what may be one of the most creatively fertile periods in the history of the American documentary. [T]here’s a small but exciting movement of boundary-pushing films that endeavor to deconstruct and expand our understanding of the form, a set of innovative screen experiments that find elusive truths through contrived circumstances. At the forefront of this miniature revolution is the great Kirsten Johnson and her latest film Dick Johnson Is Dead….She won a special award for innovation in non-fiction storytelling at Sundance…for her unique approach to the premise of a premature commemoration of her father’s memory before he succumbs to Alzheimer’s.”
– Charles Bramesco, The Guardian

Dick Johnson is Dead, courtesy of Kirsten Johnson

Kirsten Johnson Biography

Kirsten Johnson’s next project is a scripted feature starring Kristen Stewart based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Susan Sontag. Her previous film, Dick Johnson is Dead premiered at Sundance 2020, where it won the Jury Prize for Innovation in Nonfiction Storytelling. The film won the Primetime Emmy for Directing and made the Oscar shortlist. Her previous film, Cameraperson, was also shortlisted for the Academy Award. Her camerawork appears in Academy Award winner Citizen Four, Academy nominated The Invisible War, and Cannes Winner Fahrenheit 9/11. She is one of the only 5% of women members of American Society of Cinematographers.

The Lucy Molnar Wing Lecture Series

The Lucy Molnar Wing Lecture Series in the School of Image Arts provides a rare glimpse into the lives and careers of working filmmakers, photographers and new media producers who have developed a name for themselves in the industry. As an accomplished artist, innovator, photographer and social entrepreneur, Lucy Molnar Wing founded Film North Festival and was its CEO until her passing in 2016.

Lucy had a strong connection to TMU where she studied photographic arts at the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education. There she received numerous awards for her work and mentored emerging artists. Lucy’s friends and family created the Lucy Molnar Wing Lecture Series to remember this extraordinary and talented woman. The Lecture Series is a lasting tribute that combines her deep love of film and photography with her passion to share know-how, creativity and excellence with the community.

School of Image Arts

Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Image Arts at The Creative School delivers comprehensive undergraduate and graduate education in film and photography media arts. The curriculum embraces a balance of theory and practice, fine art and commercial production, while nourishing critical thinking and freedom of expression.

Dick Johnson is Dead, courtesy of Kirsten Johnson

The School of Image Arts
Toronto Metropolitan University
122 Bond Street
www.torontomu.ca
416-979-5000 ext 555167

Lecture Location
Eaton Theatre, Rogers Communication Centre
80 Gould Street, 2nd Floor, Room 204
Toronto, ON

Media Contact
Katy McCormick: kmccormi@torontomu.ca

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Accessibility
Eaton Theatre at the Rogers Communication Centre is full accessible

Lucy Molnar Wing Lecture Series at Image Arts
Presented free and open to the public through the generosity of Lucy’s friends and family in memory of Lucy Molnar Wing.

Image descriptions:
1. Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson surrounded by a yellow film reel motif
2. Still from Dick Johnson is Dead; Johnson directs her father and the film crew in a scene of the film
3. Johnson and her father are dressed for Halloween while sitting on a couch watching TV