The Trouble With Ghosts

The UCLA Film and Television Archive is screening "La Llorona" (2019), "Pulse (Kaïro)" (2001), "How to Save a Dead Friend" (2022) and "A Ghost Story" (2017) for free at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum. In person: UCLA Cinema and Media Studies Professor Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli and Université Paris Cité Visual Studies Professor Martine Beugnet The history of photography, film and television is so populated by ghosts that we can forget what is uniquely strange about them. The ghost is a troubling figure that points to the limit of thought — to death and nothingness. Yet, phantoms ne…