Ghost (1984)

Another of Takashi Ito's many short films using timelapse to create a live-action stopmotion effect. It's effectively filming with a really low frame rate per second, lots of cuts, and a lot of repetitive analog special effects. There's no story here. Ito's shorts are mostly just an agitating atmosphere of dream-like visuals and industrial noise. The general themes tend to be at best vague notions of mental illness or dream-logic (such as this one where the title applies a death-dreaming/ghost narrative). It appears he mostly plays around with overexposure while using a projector to project pre-recorded shots into a room where he is filming, he moves variousthings (such as a plastic sheet he's projecting onto, lens distortion, the projector, the lights, etc.) around during each exposure to create ghosting/movement effects. He could also be stacking shots on top of each other in post editing. This is mostly another art study of his to try out various visual effects using the same few techniques. Really its primary value would be to filmmakers who might be interested in replicating similar effects. It's a shame he almost never actually did much of anything to put these techniques to use in making actual movies rather than these compiled art studies with noise overlaid. 1/10 (where 5/10 is average)