A documentary maker who repeatedly staged her father’s death to help her deal with his descent into dementia has said the film is “an act of defiance”.
Kirsten Johnson’s Netflix documentary Dick Johnson Is Dead fakes her father’s death in a number of creative and often funny ways, and even shows him in heaven.
The film, which won a special award for innovation in non-fiction storytelling at the Sundance film festival, also shows the director’s tender relationship with her father.
She told the PA news agency: “You can’t actually accept it, you can’t accept that this person who loves you doesn’t recognise you. “This film is an act of defiance in response to that and also a desperate begging of cinema to help me put him back together, to put
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