{"title":"Ghost Dances on Silver Screens","authors":"Andrea Hairston","doi":"10.3828/extr.2016.3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"“Ghost Dances on Silver Screens: Pumzi and Older Than America” is a meditation on the ghost artistry of filmmakers Wanuri Kahiu and Georgina Lightning. Ghosts are an embodiment of the invisible forces of a past that hasn’t gone anywhere. Revealing what is normally concealed, ghosts are sacred/demonic tricksters who provide alternate perspectives on the here and now and on the future. Asha from Kahiu’s Pumzi and Rain from Lightning’s Older than America engage with the ghosts of their ancestors not as an exercise in nostalgia for a paradise lost nor as a scare-you-to-death adrenaline ride. Rain and Asha dance with the ancestors so that they might reorder the cosmos. They are futurists, reanimating and reinventing the world.","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"22 1","pages":"7-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2016-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/extr.2016.3","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"EXTRAPOLATION","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2016.3","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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“Ghost Dances on Silver Screens: Pumzi and Older Than America” is a meditation on the ghost artistry of filmmakers Wanuri Kahiu and Georgina Lightning. Ghosts are an embodiment of the invisible forces of a past that hasn’t gone anywhere. Revealing what is normally concealed, ghosts are sacred/demonic tricksters who provide alternate perspectives on the here and now and on the future. Asha from Kahiu’s Pumzi and Rain from Lightning’s Older than America engage with the ghosts of their ancestors not as an exercise in nostalgia for a paradise lost nor as a scare-you-to-death adrenaline ride. Rain and Asha dance with the ancestors so that they might reorder the cosmos. They are futurists, reanimating and reinventing the world.
《银幕上的幽灵舞蹈:普姆齐和比美国更古老》是对电影制作人瓦努里·卡尤和乔治娜·雷明的幽灵艺术的思考。鬼魂是过去的无形力量的化身，过去的无形力量从未消失。幽灵揭示了通常隐藏的东西，它们是神圣/恶魔般的骗子，提供了关于此时此地和未来的不同视角。Kahiu的《Pumzi》中的Asha和Lightning的《old than America》中的Rain都与祖先的鬼魂进行了交流，既不是为了怀念失去的天堂，也不是为了刺激你的肾上腺素。雨和亚莎与祖先共舞，以便他们可以重新安排宇宙。他们是未来主义者，给世界注入活力，重新创造世界。
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