Dick Johnson Is Dead

2020·89'

Kirsten Johnson

Documentary

English

Letterboxd TMDB #653574

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.

Cast

Richard Johnson Self Kirsten Johnson Self

Isla Sierck Self

Jed Sierck Self

Felix Torres Self

Viva Torres Self

Raymond Damazo Self

Michael Hilow Self

Michael Melton Self

Joanne Reiner Tucker Self

Ken Tucker Self

Laurie McEwan Self