There's more to the story than all those glorious fake death scenes.

Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson is a stunningly resilient person. As seen in her terrific 2016 visual memoir Cameraperson, Johnson has captured some of the bleakest settings humanity has to offer while also working through the personal difficulty of losing her mother to Alzheimer’s. She’s forced to face that same kind of loss again with her father Dick Johnson, but rather than succumb to despair or curse the fates, Johnson does what she does best: she picks up her camera and gets to the truth. Her new film Dick Johnson Is Dead is a beautiful movie about how we can …

The official trailer for Netflix's stirring (and attention-grabbing) documentary Dick Johnson Is Dead has arrived. This is the second documentary from director Kirsten Johnson, who continues to take a highly personal approach to the genre in the follow-up feature to her 2016 work Cameraperson. [caption id="attachment_928715" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Netflix[/caption] It's clear from the jump that Dick Johnson Is Dead will make you laugh as much as it will make you cry. The trailer outlines this basic set-up: Johnson is dealing with the inevitable fact that her father, the titular …