J.G. Ballard
출생 : 1930-11-15, Shanghai, China
사망 : 2009-04-19
약력
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)
Novel
1975년 런던, 세계적인 건축가 안토니 로열이 설계한 40F 타워 ‘하이라이즈’. 고소득층 사람들만이 입주할 수 있는 이곳은 모든 편의시설과 서비스가 마련되어 외부로 나갈 필요가 없다. 얼마 지나지 않아 건물의 치명적 결함이 밝혀지고 25층에 사는 Dr. 랭은 이웃들의 이상 징후를 발견한다. 호화로운 파티가 열린 밤, 의문의 추락 사고 이후 마침내 진짜 하이 라이프의 실체를 목격하게 되는데...
Self
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.
Author
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.
Himself
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.
Himself
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.
Novel
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.
Novel
A doctor in a mental research institution is driven insane by the spectacle of the horrors of the twentieth century.
Novel
방송국 프로듀서 제임스 발라드(James Ballard: 제임스 스페이더 분). 그는 애인 캐서린(Catherine Ballard: 데보라 웅거)과 기이한 성생활을 즐긴다. 이들은 서로의 성적인 문제, 특히 불륜 행각에 자극을 받는 묘한 관계다. 어느 날 제임스는 운전도중 여의사 헬렌 레밍턴(Helen Remington: 홀리 헌터)의 차와 충돌한다. 충격에서 벗어나 정신을 차린 제임스의 옆에는 충돌로 튕겨져 나온 헬렌의 남편이 거꾸로 처박힌 채 죽어 있다. 제임스는 사고의 충격에서 벗어나지 못하는 헬렌을 보면서 순간적으로 야릇한 성 충동에 사로잡힌다. 그러면서 자동차 충돌 사고에 숨어있는 위험, 섹스, 죽음 사이의 이상한 관계 속으로 빨려 들어간다. 사고 수습과정에서 다시 마주친 제임스와 헬렌. 그들은 본능적인 힘에 이끌려 차 안에서 격정적인 사랑을 나눈다. 제임스는 헬렌의 소개로 본(Vaughan: 엘리어스 커티어스)이라는 사람을 알게 된다. 본은 사람과 기계의 충돌에서 발생하는 에로틱한 힘에 사로잡혀 있는 전직 과학자. 교통사고 현장과 병원을 찾아 다니며 자신과 같은 생각을 가진 사람들을 모아 모임을 만든다. 그의 애인 가브리엘(Gabrielle: 로잔나 아퀘트)과 전직 스턴트맨 시그레이브(Colin Seagrave: 피터 맥닐 분)도 교통 사고에 관해서는 확고한 믿음을 가진 광신도들이다. 본은 이들을 중심으로 사람들을 끌어 모으고, 그들이 지켜보는 가운데 '실험'을 행한다.
Writer
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.
Story
Strange things are happening at Green Hill asylum…
Self
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.
Self
Documentary about the making of director Steven Spielberg's film Empire of the Sun
Novel
1941년 중국과 일본은 4년째 선전포고 없는 전쟁을 치루고 있었으며, 농촌 지역의 상당 부분과 여러 마을 및 도시를 일본군이 점령하여 통치하고 있었다. 상하이(Shanghai)에는 수 천 명의 서양인들이 국제거주에 관한 외교 조약의 보호 아래 생활하고 있었는데, 그들은 19세기에 영국인 이주가 행해진 이래로, 은행과 호텔과 사무실과 교회와 가옥을 지어, 마치 영국의 리버풀(Liverpool)이나 서리(Surrey)를 그대로 옮겨놓은 듯한 소도시를 형성하고 있었다. 그러나 파국의 날은 오고 있었다. 상하이 외곽에 배치된 일본군이 그들의 공격 신호가 될 진주만 기습의 소식을 조용히 기다리고 있었던 것이다.
Self
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.
Novel
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.
Writer
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)
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)
Writer
지구를 공룡이 지배했던 태초의 시대, 인간은 무리를 지어 바닷가에 살며 공룡을 피해 사냥도 하고 낚시도 하며 살아간다. 알 수 없는 미래가 두려웠던 인간들은 금발의 미녀를 태양의 제물로 바치는 풍습이 있었는데, 이 의식에서 가까스로 도망친 금발의 산나는 바다에 빠졌다가 지나가는 다른 부족들에게 구조된다. 산나를 구한 타라는 첫눈에 산나에게 반하고, 산나를 마을로 데려와 살게 하지만 마을 여자들의 시기와 질투에 산나는 또다시 마녀란 누명을 쓰게 된다. 한편 태양에 제물을 바치는 의식을 마무리하려는 산나의 부족은 산나를 쫓아 타라의 마을에 오고, 산나를 구해 주려던 타라는 함께 쫓기는 신세가 되는데...
Story
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'.
Novel
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.
Novel
An architect finds himself stranded on a man-made island between two highways with only the contents of his car in his possession.