DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD

Directed by: Kirsten Johnson
Produced by: Katy Chevigny, Marilyn Ness

ABOUT THE FILM

With this inventive portrait, a cameraperson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.

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“…an exercise in imagination, and an inquiry into whether imagining the death of a loved one and their hopes for the hereafter might magnify or blunt the blow of death when it finally comes.“

— Alissa Wilkinson

“Kirsten Johnson playfully considers the faith and fate of her Alzheimer's-afflicted father in this richly rewarding, surprising documentary.”

— Guy Lodge

“…An audacious and bittersweet attempt to confront mortality.”

— David Sims