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‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’ Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson Wants to Be in the World, She Tells Ji.hlava Doc Fest
From Michael Moore to the Balkan War, subjects on camera have their own agenda, says Kirsten Johnson at Ji.hlava Doc Festival.
Having lensed more that 50 films from the early 1990s on, including “Derrida,” “Fahrenheit 911” “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” and “Citizenfour,” the ebullient and down-to-earth Johnson stepped into directing in 2016 with “Cameraperson.” The Netflix-produced project follows Johnson’s father, who with her help, copes with dementia by imaging and acting out all the ways he might meet his demise. When filming war devastation, Johnson learned, it’s immediately clear when something is very wrong is you encounter “bodies in positions they’re not supposed to be in.”
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