Ghost Dance

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.'

A dance in a small fishing village became a memory of the old man. The flood of drugs set off the detective’s ambition. The heroism of the young beetle opened the curtain for black humor!

"Ghost Dance (1980) takes the viewer on a spiraling descent into Arizona’s Canyon de Chelly, from the rim at the top to the Navajo ruins on the mud-caked canyon floor. A systemic looping technique via JK Optical Printer creates images that are stretched, recycled, and interwoven, altering one’s perceptions of time and space in relation to the immediate “present.”" - Holly Fisher

Emerging with flickering intensity from footage of Native American rituals, an animated dance appears which subverts past bodily expression.

A third-year high school girl who lives in Kawasaki City. She secretly has feelings for her classmate Shinya, but Shinya dies in an accident without being able to tell her. When she is wandering around the city in her dazed state due to shock, she is invited by a young man (Ishida) to a gathering to hold a Native American ritual called "Ghost Dance" to meet the deceased. Children who lost their parents, parents who lost their children, old men who lost their comrades, husbands who lost their wives, and many other "leftovers" gathered there.

A strange image of a human figure appeared on the wall of cinema number 404. The discovery of a female corpse in the wall marked the beginning of not only a new investigation, but also a series of horrible paranormal events.

"Ghost Dance for a new Century is a re-imagining of my earlier double-projection silent 16mm project Ghost Dance (1980), reworked here into a single, multi-layered, evolving digital canvas, rich in desert colors with pale whites overlapping, and fragments of running shadow interlaced. This film is inspired by the Native American dance performed especially in the 1890s to encourage renewal and prosperity – or from another point of view, to drive out the white man and bring back the buffalo. This is a meditative landscape piece, set between a eulogy for an unspoken past and a plea for attention to an unmapped future … Music is an original work called LENS, written and performed by composer/ cellist Ha-Yang Kim." - Holly Fisher

From Edison films catalog: One of the most peculiar customs of the Sioux Tribe is here shown, the dancers being genuine Sioux Indians, in full war paint and war costumes. 40 feet. 7.50. According to Edison film historian C. Musser, this film and others shot on the same day (see also Buffalo dance) featured Native American Indian dancers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, and represent the American Indian's first appearance before a motion picture camera.

The spirit of a long-dead warrior possesses the body of an Indian medicine man and turns him into a homicidal maniac.

Yoo-jin appears in the dreams of Dong-jae who is a host for lonely women at night. She appears in real life, asking him for help. What she needs is to sleep with him once. Yoo-jin was a virgin ghost and she needed Dong-jae to help her to go back to the after world. However, he doesn't want to sleep with her because she used to be his crush and he'd been waiting to see her in his dreams and in real life. He is afraid sleeping with her will make him lose her. Will he sleep with her or continue to live with her like this?

On Dia-de-los-Muertos, a young Latino struggles with his guilty conscience as it takes the form of his ex’s ghost that haunts him on a date with a new girl.

Choreographic school, young talents are collected here. Behind eight years of study - three months remain before the final performance. And finally, “Giselle” is appointed, roles are distributed, girls are worried - they are afraid of the wording “professionally unsuitable”, but Yulya’s thoughts are different. She fell in love for the first time. And she has to choose between her beloved and the stage.

This special chapter of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series was never turned into a videogram, but was broadcast on television.