J.G. Ballard
Writer · 1930 – 2009 · Shanghai International Settlement, Republic of China [now Shanghai, China]
James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) 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.
Movies6
Movie6.4DocumentaryDocumentary about the making of director Steven Spielberg's film Empire of the Sun
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
1987 · 7 votes
MovieDocumentaryA 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.
Hyperstition
2015
Movie6.6DramaA surreal, moody short about the fetishisation of automobiles and auto accidents.
Crash!
1971 · 10 votes
Movie8.5DocumentaryA 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.
Movie7.0DocumentaryA 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.
London Orbital
2002 · 2 votes
MovieDocumentaryThe Future Is Now was produced for Swedish television and has Ballard as the only protagonist and his house as the main decoration.
Series1
TVDocumentaryAbout visions of the future drawing on the work of leading writers of science fiction and leading experts in science fact.
New Nightmares
1993