Synopsis
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.
Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020) is a 1h 29min documentary feature film by Kirsten Johnson. With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Selected for Bolton International Film Festival (2020).
Key facts
Original language
English
First release
January 23, 2020
Awards
Sundance Special Jury Prize Documentary
Trailer
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Festival History
- Independent Spirit Awards 2021 generic
- Bolton International Film Festival 2020
- CPH:DOX 2020 generic
- Indiewire Critics' Poll 2020 generic
- Sundance Film Festival 2020 generic
Identifiers & sources
| Wikidata | Q84366622 |
| IMDb | tt11394180 |
| TMDB | 653574 |
