J.G. Ballard

AKA: Shanghai Jim, James Graham Ballard
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1930-11-15

Shanghai International Settlement, Republic of China [now Shanghai, China]

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)

Crew Roles

Empire of the Sun
Novel
The Atrocity Exhibition
Novel
Home
Author
Running Wild
Novel
Crash
Novel
Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers
Writer
Thirteen to Centaurus
Story
Minus One
Story
Crash!
Writer
Science Fiction Is Us
Writer
High-Rise
Novel
Billenium
Novel
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
Writer
Low-Flying Aircraft
Novel
Short Story
Novel
Story
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {9}

1971-02-12 6.6

Crash!

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, s ...
Genre :Drama

Self

1990-01-01 7

Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard

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 ...
Genre :

Self

2002-08-30 6

London Orbital

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 ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1983-01-01 8

The Unlimited Dream Company

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 sc ...
Genre :Documentary, Science Fiction

1998-01-01 0

J.G. Ballard: The Future Is Now

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

Himself

2003-02-22 0

J.G. Ballard: A Profile

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. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1987-12-30 6.3

The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun

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

Self

2015-07-22 0

Hyperstition

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 ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself

1993-04-13 0

New Nightmares

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