China Odyssey
Over on BallardoTube, the “China Odyssey” doco on the making of Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun has appeared. Ballard features prominently. Don’t forget part two. [ thanks Pedro! ]
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BallardoTube
I’ve created a YouTube outpost for this site. It’s divided into six channels: (1) J.G. Ballard Interviews; (2) J.G. Ballard Documentaries; (3) J.G. Ballard Adaptations; (4) J.G. Ballard’s Top Ten...
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Dream's Ransom: Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun
Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun (more at YouTube.) by Pedro Groppo EMPIRE OF THE SUN (1987) Director: Steven Spielberg Screenplay: Tom Stoppard, based on the novel by J.G. Ballard Starring:...
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Ballardian Home Movies: The Final Cut
THE 1ST BALLARDIAN FESTIVAL OF HOME MOVIES Illustration by John Coulthart. WINNER Ben Slater; ‘Vista 8′ JOHN: Monochrome location scouting inside a high-rise hotel that looks half-finished. Remnants of...
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'The Crashman': An Experiment in Applied Internet Ballardianism
“The Crashman”: An Experiment in Applied Internet Ballardianism. by the Crashman. ABOVE: ‘White Bird’ by the Crashman. ‘XB-70, Tu-144: White Bird Must Fly, or she will crash’. From the moment Blake...
View ArticleVirtual Death: The Game Show
We’re all suffocated by the consumer society and its entertainment culture, where everything is an image or imitation of something else. We’re so starved of the real, as we think of it, that we’ll...
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1971: Year of the Drake
From outer space to inner… LEFT: Gabrielle Drake in UFO. RIGHT: Ms Drake in Crash!. Pringle: [In Crash!] you were playing opposite a professional actress, so it wasn’t as though it was purely a...
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Escaping the gaze: A review of John Foxx's Tiny Colour Movies
ABOVE: Stills from ‘The Projectionst’ by ‘Alan Marker’ (John Foxx; Tiny Colour Movies). In Melbourne a few months back, I had occasion to see John Foxx’s live soundtrack performance and presentation...
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'Like Alice in Wonderland': Solveig Nordlund on J.G. Ballard
‘Like Alice in Wonderland’: Solveig Nordlund on J.G. Ballard Interview by Rick McGrath Margarida Marinho in Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude (dir. Solveig Nordlund, 2002). An interview with Solveig...
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'Confronting Ourselves': Ballard and Circular Time
Solaris (last scene) (1972), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky ‘”We do not move in one direction, rather do we wander back and forth, turning now this way and now that. We go back on our own tracks…” That...
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‘No Original Response’: J.G. Ballard predicts Social Media, CCTV, Reality TV
Above: J.G. Ballard. Photo by Simon Durrant, from i-D magazine, 1987. Above: Excerpt from Ballard’s 1977 Vogue essay (via Gideon Defoe). Response to a post at Buzzfeed on how J.G. Ballard “predicted...
View ArticleMelborea Moronica: New ‘Depraved Species of Electric Flora’ Found Growing in...
;embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/25yOIOl79d4″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”350″> A Melbourne rugby reporter, Ben Davis, presents his live-to-air...
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