Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 60 min
  • Premiere: 2002. March 13.

Hundreds of scholars and biographers have tried to explain the life and work of Emily Dickinson, but the famously reclusive poet remains an enigma. In LOADED GUN: Life, and Death, and Dickinson, stumped filmmaker Jim Wolpaw uses a decidedly unorthodox approach to create a documentary about the writer whose beautiful, haunting and cryptic poetry has never quite squared with her reputation as a sensitive spinster. Wolpaw's efforts to illuminate this ethereal subject - more than 150 years after her death - yield some hilariously frustrating results.

Discover

Leslie Dill

Herself

Leslie Fleming-Mitchell

Emily Candidate

Julie Harris

Herself

Nicole Jesson

An Emily Dickinson

Dan Lombardo

Himself

Lisa Perkins

Herself

Alan Powers

Himself

Michele Proude

Auditioning Emily

Camera

Claire Folger

Camera Operator

Directing

Jim Wolpaw

Director

Editing

Production

Steve Gentile

Producer

Lisa Perkins

Associate Producer

Jim Wolpaw

Producer

Sound

Klem Klimek

Musician

Sarah McGurkin

Musician

Mark Ruter

Musician

Jonathan Stark

Musician

Matt Stark

Musician

Camera

Claire Folger

Camera Operator

Directing

Jim Wolpaw

Director

Editing

Production

Steve Gentile

Producer

Lisa Perkins

Associate Producer

Jim Wolpaw

Producer

Sound

Klem Klimek

Musician

Sarah McGurkin

Musician

Mark Ruter

Musician

Jonathan Stark

Musician

Matt Stark

Musician