Ken McMullen's roots are in the British independent and avant-garde cinema as well as the theatre. “Ghost Dance is a visually impressive and complex examination of ideas about ghosts, memory and the past seen across the adventures of two women (Pascale Ogier, Leonie Mellinger) in Paris and London. Drawing strongly on influences from Jacques Rivette (especially Céline and Julie Go Boating) and Jean-Luc Godard, the film's intellectual centre is French theorist Jacques Derrida, whose ideas about ghosts being memories of a past that was never present underline much of what happens on screen. Writer-director Ken McMullen also draws upon anthropological myth studies, most notably the cargo cults, and explores the possibility that ghosts have been able to use electricity and electronics to expand their presence in the modern world, an idea derived from Leon Trotsky.” Ken Wlaschin, Filmex '84