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)
J.G. Ballard Biography / Wiki
| Name | J.G. Ballard |
| Also Know | Shanghai Jim, James Graham Ballard |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Writing |
| Place of Birth | Shanghai, China |
| Date of Birth | 1930-11-15 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 78 |
| Deathday | 2009-04-19 |
J.G. Ballard Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Crash! | 1971-02-12 | 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 w… | |
| Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard | Self | 1990-01-01 | A film essay on Ballard’s fiction, and its unrealised cinematic potential, with particular reference to David Cronenberg’s (yet to be filmed) Crash, f… |
| The Unlimited Dream Company | Self | 1983-01-01 | An experimental documentary portrait of author J.G. Ballard. Ballard speaks about his life and work, and submits to a lengthy personality questionnai… |
| J.G. Ballard: The Future Is Now | 1998-01-01 | … | |
| J.G. Ballard: A Profile | Himself | 2003-02-22 | 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 Empi… |
| London Orbital | Himself | 2002-08-30 | 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 f… |
| The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun | Himself | 1987-12-30 | Documentary about the making of director Steven Spielberg’s film Empire of the Sun… |
| Hyperstition | Self | 2015-07-22 | A film on time and narrative by Christopher Roth with Armen Avanessian. Hyperstitional thinking hijacks the present-forming daring interventions into … |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Minus One | Story | 1991-06-15 | Strange things are happening at Green Hill asylum…… |
| Crash | Novel | 1996-07-17 | After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car acc… |
| Empire of the Sun | Novel | 1987-12-09 | Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured w… |
| Home | Author | 2003-10-06 | 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 h… |
| Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers | Writer | 1994-09-01 | Based on the writings of: J.G. Ballard, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Rollins, Roberta Lannes, Edmund Emil Kemper, etc. The structure of this … |
| High-Rise | Novel | 2015-11-22 | Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control…. |
| Thirteen to Centaurus | Story | 1965-12-13 | Interstellar travel at sub-light speeds: the enormous distances, isolation from human culture and the aching loneliness of space are enough to drive t… |
| Crash! | Writer | 1971-02-12 | 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 w… |
| Concrete Island | Novel | An architect finds himself stranded on a man-made island between two highways with only the contents of his car in his possession…. | |
| Billenium | Novel | 1974-09-10 | Two roommates discover an extra personal space that they have never known. Things become complicated when they allow two other close friends to share … |
| When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth | Writer | 1970-10-25 | 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, s… |
| Low-Flying Aircraft | Novel | 2002-05-09 | 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 se… |
| The Atrocity Exhibition | Novel | 1998-01-31 | A doctor in a mental research institution is driven insane by the spectacle of the horrors of the twentieth century…. |
| Running Wild | Novel | A forensic psychologist is enlisted to delve into the circumstances surrounding the brutal murder of thirty-two adults in an exclusive gated community… | |
| Short Story | Terrifying creatures, wicked surprises and dark comedy converge in this NSFW anthology of animated stories presented by Tim Miller and David Fincher…. | ||
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