J.G. Ballard

J.G. Ballard

Born: November 15, 1930
Died: April 19, 2009
in Shanghai International Settlement, Republic of China [now Shanghai, China]
James Graham Ballard was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Born in an international settlement in Shanghai to British parents before his family emigrated to the UK, Ballard began writing in the 1950s, becoming associated with the New Wave of science fiction with post-apocalyptic novels such as The Wind from Nowhere and The Drowned World. (Wikipedia)

Movies for J.G. Ballard...

Hyperstition
Title: Hyperstition
Character: Self
Released: July 22, 2015
Type: Movie
A film on time and narrative by Christopher Roth with Armen Avanessian. Hyperstitional thinking hijacks the present-forming daring interventions into conditions of cybernetic governance that foreclose contingency.
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J.G. Ballard: A Profile
Title: J.G. Ballard: A Profile
Character: Himself
Released: February 22, 2003
Type: Movie
Tom Sutcliffe meets J.G. Ballard, arguably one of Britain's most profound and provocative novelists, author of such works as Crash, High-Rise and Empire of the Sun.
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London Orbital
Title: London Orbital
Character: Self
Released: August 30, 2002
Type: Movie
A filmmaker sets out to make a voyage of discovery on London's orbital motorway, the M25. He enlists the help of several others to film the motorway from several points, drive endlessly around it and dig up stories and potential beauty behind the motorway.
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J.G. Ballard: The Future Is Now
Title: J.G. Ballard: The Future Is Now
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
The Future Is Now was produced for Swedish television and has Ballard as the only protagonist and his house as the main decoration.
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Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard
Title: Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A film essay on Ballard's fiction, and its unrealised cinematic potential, with particular reference to David Cronenberg's (yet to be filmed) Crash, featuring an interview with the director, prior to making of his film.
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The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Title: The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
Character: Self
Released: December 30, 1987
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of director Steven Spielberg's film Empire of the Sun
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The Unlimited Dream Company
Title: The Unlimited Dream Company
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
An experimental documentary portrait of author J.G. Ballard. Ballard speaks about his life and work, and submits to a lengthy personality questionnaire; these sections are intercut with surrealist scenes inspired by Ballard's fiction, centering on a downed pilot wandering through various landscapes.
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Crash!
Title: Crash!
Released: February 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Short film produced by the BBC about JG Ballard's Crash. “The film was a product of the most experimental, darkest phase of Ballard’s career. It was an era of psychological blowback from the sudden, shocking death of his wife in 1964, an era that had produced the cut-up ‘condensed novels’ of Atrocity plus a series of strange collages and ‘advertisers’ announcements’. […] After Freud’s exploration within the psyche it is now the outer world of reality which must be quantified and eroticised.’ Later there were further literary experiments, concrete poems and ‘impressionistic’ film reviews, and an aborted multimedia theatrical play based around car crashes. After that came an actual gallery exhibition of crashed cars, replete with strippers and the drunken destruction of the ‘exhibits’ by an enraged audience.” (from: http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.blogspot.de/2013/01/short-film-adaptation-of-jg-ballards.html)