Ghost Stories

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 socalled visual literacy which is frequently based on a complacent misreading of images and also as a rejection of filmbiography 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