Ghost was released 1984, “I made this work because I wanted to try out the idea of floating images in midair that had come to me when making Thunder. The entire work was shot frame-by-frame with long exposures. I filmed this in the company dorm I was living in in the middle of the night after I had come home from work, and thought I might die from what had become my daily pattern of sleeping for two hours in the morning then going off to work.” – Takashi Ito
Sound was done by Yosuke Inagak. The sound in Ghost is beautiful, it is very grainy and filled with ambience. It consists of a lot of beautiful sweeping droning pads that almost sound like they’re clipping. It also contains natural sounding sounds such as the sound of rats squeaking which can’t be seen on screen.
The film experiments with ” the most basic dimensions of cinematic illusion, such as space depth, lightning and movement, to create a visual feast that seems to touch on the horror genre”.
https://letterboxd.com/film/ghost-1984/
http://thesoundofeye.blogspot.com/2010/07/takashi-ito-ghost-1984.html
“The single frame, varied and repeated, combined to grant the inner eye the illusion of motion. This photographic essence, this basic cinematic unit, is Ito Takashi’s obsession, and the beginning of our voyage through his oeuvre: The single iterative frame as the artistic element of space-time, and the source of the cinematic alchemist’s mastery over his art. It is an art on the frontier between stop-motion and motion, between the stillness of the photograph and the action of the motion-picture.” https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/ghosts-of-time-and-light-the-experimental-cinema-of-ito-takashi