J.G. Ballard

Элитная высотка — идеальная модель мира будущего. Здесь есть всё для комфортной и роскошной жизни. Но зависть, соперничество, жажда острых ощущений постепенно разжигают открытую вражду между жителями высотки, заставляя забыть о законах морали даже лучших из них. Добро пожаловать в мир будущего.

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.

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.

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.

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.

В недалёком будущем население планеты медленно вымирает, на свет появляются преимущественно «Зоты» — дети с сильными генетическими отклонениями, и они подлежат уничтожению. Молодая пара приезжает в отель с подтверждением, что их будущий ребёнок будет нормальным…

Насилие в СМИ, психологическое отчуждение, смерть и темнота бессознательного — вот те факторы формирующие окружающюю среду века технологий. В фильме психиатр, погруженный в собственный психоз, пытается изложить тезис о том, что рухнувший барьер между внутренними фантастическими ландшафтами и внешним рациональным миром и породил бытие.

Продюсер Джеймс Баллард и его жена Кэтрин — искатели эротических приключений. Есть у обоих и другая страсть — к автомобилям. Однажды Джеймс попадает в страшную аварию. В клинике он знакомится с жертвой этой аварии Хелен и ее приятелем Воэном. Так начинается освоение Джеймсом и Кэтрин новых ощущений: сексуального возбуждения от бьющихся машин и травмированных тел.

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.

Strange things are happening at Green Hill asylum…

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.

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

1941 год, Вторая Мировая война. Юный англичанин Джим Грэхем живет в богатой семье в Китае. Японцы вторглись в Шанхай, Джим теряется в толпе и остается без родителей в захваченном городе. Во время скитаний находит друга Бэйзи, с которым попадает в лагерь заключенных.

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.

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.

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)

Миллион лет до нашей эры, когда на земле царили динозавры, племя жителей скал приносило в жертву богу солнца светловолосых девушек. Однажды, в день жертвоприношения, произошла страшная вспышка на солнце, от которой поднималась ужасная буря, во время которой очередная жертва — Санна, сбегает от соплеменников. Девушка находит приют в соседнем племени, живущем в песках, где она сразу завоевывает сердце ловкого Тара — вождя племени. За это темноволосые женщины песков изгоняют прекрасную соперницу в джунгли. Волей случая она становится«приемной дочерью» громадного динозавра и «сестрой ее детенышу».

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'.

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.

An architect finds himself stranded on a man-made island between two highways with only the contents of his car in his possession.