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.
Ira Sachs is a New York-based American filmmaker. He has directed many acclaimed independent films that have screened at festivals like Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, and Toronto. As a 2013 Guggenheim recipient, Sachs is also the founder and Executive Director of Queer/Art, a non-profit arts organization based in NYC that provides support for LGBTQ artists across disciplines and generations.