‘Cameraperson’ is a Powerful and Inquisitive Memoir

The tremendously beautiful opening images of Kirsten Johnson’s Cameraperson were shot in the small Bosnian town of Foča. The scene is rural, picturesque, and evocative of an ancient way of life, like so many of the artfully made documentary films that pepper festival programs. Johnson frames a gorgeous shot, looking up from the side of the path at an ol…