It's All True - With Kirsten Johnson

When:
Tuesday, Apr 02, 2024 7:00p -
Wednesday, Apr 03, 2024 10:00p

Where:
Paramount Theater
559 Washington St
Boston, MA 02111

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Admission:
FREE

Hosted by:
jessedocs Jesse Epstein

Categories:
Accessible Spots, Date Idea, Good for Groups, Movies

Event website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/368767422812840

These events are free and open to the public. No RSVP or ticketing. Seating is on a first come basis.

Screening Tuesday, April 2nd at 7pm (doors at 6:30pm)

Dick Johnson is Dead

Directed by Kirsten Johnson, documentary, English, United States, 89 minutes, 2020

This playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director’s beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she is beginning to face the reality of losing him to dementia. Using the language of cinema both to defy death and to confront it head-on, Johnson mischievously envisions an array of ways in which the man she loves most in the world might die, staging a series of alternately darkly comic and colorfully imaginative tableaux interwoven with raw vérité footage capturing the pair’s tender but increasingly fragile bond. Tackling taboo questions of aging, mortality, and grief with subversive humor and surprising grace, Dick Johnson Is Dead is ultimately a triumphant celebration of life, and of the gentle, funny, unforgettable man at its center. Long live Dick Johnson. Conversation with director Kirsten Johnson to follow.

Screening Wednesday April 3rd at 7pm (doors at 6:30pm)

Program of student documentary shorts

April 3rd: Student Documentaries with opening remarks by Kirsten Johnson

Spontaneous Activity of Children

A film by Jiale Li, Kat Fitzgerald and Emma Rose

Time to Decide (Te Wā Ki Te Whakatau)

A film by Zander Colman

Of Myself

A film by Tati Chavitage

We Have a Show

A film by Xudong Liu

Chronic Dissonance

A film by Ethan Gabert-Doyon

Forced Confession

A film by Saba Ghasemi

The Angie Archives

A film by Claire Maske

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