Ghost Stories

1983 37m Dir. Nicky Hamlyn

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Ghost stories opens with a sequence of polemical shots: a mysterious shadow, an ambiguous advertisement which has deeper ambiguities unknown even to itself, and a lengthy quotation from Roland Barthes on the nature of autobiography. These opening shots outline the context in which I hope the bulk of the film will be seen: as a critique on so-called visual literacy, which is frequently based on a complacent mis-reading of images, and also as a rejection of film-biography, whose efficacy depends on such visual complacency. The body of the film consists of fragmentary views of the interior of a house, in which desultory activity occasionally takes place, sometimes in front of the camera, sometimes not. A ghost story is told, firewood is sorted.

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Year
1983
Runtime
37m
Director
Language
EN
🎬 Nicky Hamlyn

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Ghost Stories has a runtime of 37m ( and 37 minutes).
Ghost Stories was directed by Nicky Hamlyn and released in 1983.

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