Fatherspirit Photobook

The feature film Father Spirit is an unblinking look into the story of a son’s hopeful effort to connect with his terminally ill father on one last epic journey. When Peter Dickinson is put into assisted living, Jonathan is unwilling to accept his father’s confinement within the four walls of the nursing home. Against all odds and conventional wisdom, Jonathan decides to become his father’s caregiver and takes him to one of the world’s most rugged and majestic countries – India – where Jonathan already had friends. As son and father take this uncertain but bold step into a four-month ambitious journey, Peter contends with the late stages of the brutal, degenerative Huntington’s disease. Navigating cold, mountainous terrain and cities thousands of years old, Jonathan is on his own spiritual journey to come to terms with his father’s accelerating decline and possibly his own fate. As Huntington’s widens the gulf between them, Father Spirit will take you into the beauty of adversity in the human experience.