Filmmaker Faces Her Father’s Mortality By Staging His ‘Death’ Again And Again

Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson stages one of her father

When Kirsten Johnson’s dad started showing signs of dementia, she struggled to accept the impending loss. So she staged a series of imagined accidents in her new film, Dick Johnson Is Dead.

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When Kirsten Johnson’s dad started showing signs of dementia, she struggled to accept the impending loss. So she staged a series of imagined accidents in her new film, Dick Johnson Is Dead.