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FIELD OF VISION

The Above

Director

Kirsten Johnson

Producers

Kirsten Johnson

Marilyn Ness

Cinematographer

Kirsten Johnson

Editor

Nels Bangerter

Sound

David Matorin

Contact

Field of Vision
Laura Poitras
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The Above

2015

United States

8 min

Color

In Kirsten Johnson’s The Above, a U.S. military surveillance balloon floats on a tether high above Kabul, Afghanistan. Its capacities are both highly classified and deeply mysterious.
Directors' Biography
Kirsten Johnson graduated from Brown University in 1987, with a BA in Fine Arts and Literature. After two years in West Africa working on local fiction and documentary film projects, she attended the FEMIS (the French National Film School) in Paris. Since graduating from the FEMIS cinematography department in 1994, she has directed 4 shorts and works frequently as a cinematographer.

Director

Kirsten Johnson

Producers

Kirsten Johnson

Marilyn Ness

Cinematographer

Kirsten Johnson

Editor

Nels Bangerter

Sound

David Matorin

Contact

Field of Vision
Laura Poitras
[email protected]

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