Dick Johnson Is Dead
Director: Kirsten Johnson Run Time: 89 min. Release Year: 2020
Starring: Ana Hoffman, Kevin Loreque, Kirsten Johnson, Michael Hilow, Richard Johnson
With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever… by killing him over and over again. 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.