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Ghost Dance

Ghost Dance

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 15, 1983

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Documentary, Drama

User Score

54%

Original Title

Ghost Dance

Production Companies

Channel 4 Television, ZDF

Director

Ken McMullen

Description

Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts, memory and the past. The film focuses on the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who observes, 'I think cinema, when it's not boring, is the art of letting ghosts come back.' He also says that 'memory is the past that has never had the form of the present.'