Asif Abrar

Overview: 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)

Genres: Drama

Original Language: en

Release Date: 1971-02-12

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Overview: 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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Original Language: en

Release Date: 1990-01-01

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Overview: 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.

Genres: Documentary

Original Language: en

Release Date: 2002-08-30

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Overview: 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.

Genres: Documentary Science Fiction

Original Language: en

Release Date: 1983-01-01

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Overview: The Future Is Now was produced for Swedish television and has Ballard as the only protagonist and his house as the main decoration.

Genres: Documentary

Original Language: sv

Release Date: 1998-01-01

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Overview: 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.

Genres: Documentary

Original Language: en

Release Date: 2003-02-22

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Overview: Documentary about the making of director Steven Spielberg's film Empire of the Sun

Genres: Documentary

Original Language: en

Release Date: 1987-12-30

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Overview: 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.

Genres: Documentary

Original Language: en

Release Date: 2015-07-22

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J.G. Ballard

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