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J.G. Ballard

J.G. Ballard

Writing

Biography

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)

Known For

Love, Death & Robots
8.2

Terrifying creatures, wicked surprises and dark comedy converge in this NSFW anthology of animated stories presented by Tim Miller and David Fincher.

Love, Death & Robots

2019
Crash
6.5

A car crash victim suddenly finds himself turned on by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground sub-culture of like-minded souls.

Crash

1996
Out of the Unknown
7.1

Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story; some were created for the series, but most were adaptations of already published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was abandoned in the final year in favour of horror and fantasy. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time.

Out of the Unknown

1965
Empire of the Sun
7.5

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.

Empire of the Sun

1987
High-Rise
5.6

Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.

High-Rise

2015
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
6.1

An ancient tribe attempts to sacrifice Sanna as an offering to the Sun god to save their tribe from dinosaurs. Tara, a young man from another tribe, saves Sanna and takes her along with him.

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

1970
The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun
6.4

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

The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun

1987
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A forensic psychologist is enlisted to delve into the circumstances surrounding the brutal murder of thirty-two adults in an exclusive gated community in the desert outside Los Angeles and the disappearance of their children. Based on the controversial novella of the same name by J.G. Ballard

Running Wild

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“Super-Cannes” is set in an ultra-modern high tech business park in the hills above the French Riviera city, famed for its film festival, where a global elite has gathered to form a closed, uber-capitalist and high-tech community.

Super-Cannes

Hyperstition
N/A

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.

Hyperstition

2015
J.G. Ballard: The Future Is Now
N/A

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

J.G. Ballard: The Future Is Now

1998
Thirteen to Centaurus
8.0

Interstellar travel at sub-light speeds: the enormous distances, isolation from human culture and the aching loneliness of space are enough to drive the strongest personality insane. Better to block all memories of human contact and to program the 12-strong crew to accept only the reality they can see and touch within their spacecraft. But a child born on "the Station" becomes insistent on learning the truth about 'Outside'.

Thirteen to Centaurus

1965
Low-Flying Aircraft
6.1

Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned apartment complex to protect their mutant child from certain death.

Low-Flying Aircraft

2002
Home
7.0

The ostensibly calm and courteous Gerald Ballantyne lives in and embodies modern suburbia. But he is haunted by the memory of a recent car crash and hounded by his estranged wife and her demands for divorce. Slowly, a festering insanity takes over and unwilling to face the outside world he embarks on a lunatic experiment. Confining himself to his middle-class home, he eschews contact with others and survives entirely off 'food' which he can find in his house. Based on JG Ballard's The Enormous Space.

Home

2003
The Atrocity Exhibition
4.7

A doctor in a mental research institution is driven insane by the spectacle of the horrors of the twentieth century.

The Atrocity Exhibition

1998
Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers
6.3

Based on the writings of: J.G. Ballard, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Rollins, Roberta Lannes, Edmund Emil Kemper, etc. The structure of this film is literally that of the title: ten monologues adapted from various fiction and documentary sources which combine to produce an unsettling work that does not pretend to analyse nor to understand the serial killers.

Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers

1994
New Nightmares
N/A

About visions of the future drawing on the work of leading writers of science fiction and leading experts in science fact.

New Nightmares

1993
Crash!
6.6

A surreal, moody short about the fetishisation of automobiles and auto accidents.

Crash!

1971
London Orbital
7.0

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.

London Orbital

2002
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Two roommates discover an extra personal space that they have never known. Things become complicated when they allow two other close friends to share the space, and the ensuing snowball effect of their invitees bringing family to live in the room.

Billenium

1974