Dick Johnson Is Dead

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.

• Kirsten JohnsonDirector
• Kirsten JohnsonWriter
• Nels BangerterWriter

• Richard JohnsonSelf
• Kirsten JohnsonSelf
• Isla SierckSelf
• Jed SierckSelf
• Felix TorresSelf
• Viva TorresSelf
• Raymond DamazoSelf
• Michael HilowSelf
• Michael MeltonSelf
• Joanne Reiner TuckerSelf
• Ken TuckerSelf
• Laurie McEwanSelf