TMDb5.2 / 10

Ghost Dance (1983)

Name: Ghost Dance
Director: Ken McMullen
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Released: 1983-12-15
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Pascale Ogier, Leonie Mellinger, Jacques Derrida, Stuart Brisley, Robbie Coltrane

100 min · Germany, United Kingdom · Dir. Ken McMullen

Documentary Drama 1983 movies

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.'