Richard Johnson
Actor · b. 1932 · Fresno, California, USA
Richard "Dick" Johnson is a retired psychologist from Seattle and filmmaker Kirsten Johnson's father. His diagnosis of early dementia forced him to retire and is the subject of Kirsten's film "Dick Johnson is Dead"
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Movie7.1DocumentaryWith 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 · 149 votes
Movie6.7DocumentaryAs a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.
Cameraperson
2016 · 95 votes