Dick Johnson Is Dead
Directed by Kirsten Johnson
Produced by Big Mouth Productions
A tender, inventive documentary that uses playful fantasy and dark humor to transform the confrontation with mortality and Alzheimer's into an act of love and creative defiance.
With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson 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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