Comments on: Ballardian Home Movies: The Final Cut

By: JG Ballard’s crystal ball | brillfilms

JG Ballard’s crystal ball | brillfilms — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:12:50 +0000

[...] group of Ballard devotees have instigated The 1st Ballardian Festival of home movies, a kind of belated realisation of the author’s vision using nothing more than a video-enabled [...]

By: Art, Light, London « Steve Wilde

Art, Light, London « Steve Wilde — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:10:33 +0000

[...] Ballardian Home Movie competition is over and I never got round to entering. Check the site out and see the winner. If [...]

By: kurye

kurye — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:29:11 +0000

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By: Tomorrow Museum » Archive » Literary Novels and Fan Culture: Some Thoughts Following The Future of Entertainment 3

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:44:07 +0000

[...] Ballardian is a great example of organic literary online community. It’s very well-written, frequently updated, and widely read. It as much explores the writing of J. G. Ballard as it does his obsessions and themes in a contemporary context. There is a forum and much activity in the comments. Simon Sellars, who runs the website independent of the author and publisher, even hosted a contest for cellphone-shot home movies inspired by Ballard’s novels. [...]

By: J.G. Ballard, autopsia del nuovo millennio - CCCB

J.G. Ballard, autopsia del nuovo millennio - CCCB — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:32:18 +0000

[...] Il seguente è un cortometraggio di Ben Slater dal titolo “Vista 8”, vincitore del primo Ballardian Home Movies. [...]

By: “Vista 8” de Ben Slater | J.G. BALLARD Autòpsia del nou mil·lenni - Del 23 de juliol al 2 de novembre de 2008 al CCCB

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:34:50 +0000

[...] 8” de Ben Slater fue el vídeo ganador del Primer festival de vídeos domésticos ballardianos grabados con móbil que organizó el australiano Simon Sellars, cuyo sitio web Ballardian.com es una [...]

By: Simon Sellars

Simon Sellars — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:22:41 +0000

Chris, I agree — the Jack Strain film is completely amazing. I’m sorry we couldn’t find a prize for it.

By: Chris J

Chris J — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:48:00 +0000

excellent, what great fun.
personally, i like ‘home’ : it’s got that super-cannes, high-rise, kingdom come suburban death trip thing….however the jack strain film is amazing, really. it’s, somehow, a real film.

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news 2 « ads without products — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:25:51 +0000

[...] ballardian flics [...]

By: Simon Sellars

Simon Sellars — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:36:06 +0000

hey ben’s back! hi ben. yeah, i thought they were a pretty good bunch, again thanks to all who entered.

By: Ben Austwick

Ben Austwick — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:51:46 +0000

Brilliant stuff, and what a great idea to use the low-tech medium of the moment, the cameraphone. Haven’t watched all of them yet but I certainly will be doing.

By: JG Ballard: The Oracle of Shepperton « The Northern Light

JG Ballard: The Oracle of Shepperton « The Northern Light — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:20:46 +0000

[...] the staple of YouTube – is clearly visable. So much so, that a group of his devotees have launched The 1st Ballardian Festival of home movies, a kind of belated realisiation of the legendary author’s vision, except that all films had [...]

By: Crashman

Crashman — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:22:48 +0000

I like them all – but I don’t own a cameraphone, so…. I had to dedicate one to the Oracle of Shepperton on my YouY00b chan:

BITTERSWEET CRASHING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czwp2QMVi7Q

By: maziar

maziar — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:17:44 +0000

simon,
maybe a data intereference/merge competition? just thinking aloud….

By: 5th Estate · Ballardian Home Movies

5th Estate · Ballardian Home Movies — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:00:05 +0000

[...] Home Movies Festival. Simon Sellars, chief archivist over at Ballardian.com decided to create a competition where people could post short, one-minute movies, created any way they liked, relating to the [...]

By: Simon Sellars

Simon Sellars — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:09:11 +0000

john, yes, i appreciated the films for those reasons, also, but in the end there were two judges and we had to reach common ground somehow. in the end, our rankings were almost completely different from each other.

maziar, that’s a very, very interesting assessment. i loved the minimal approach of home, and your explanation could serve as the theme for a whole new competition. very stimulating.

By: junkdna

junkdna — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:09:11 +0000

supervert!

By: maziar

maziar — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:37:02 +0000

i think the essential aspect of the mobile phone is that it is constantly sending out dat about ones geographical position even when turned off. this is a haunting aspect. but it also has a bearing on our understanding of audience. the merging of data waves in the stratosphere, the mutual interference of data, this is what might be the future of art in the spatial and political sense. in the movie called home, the notion of autonomy of the device is the most apparent. filmmaking becomes unnoticed exposure in the sense of traceability rather then serving as a creative intentional tool.

By: Simon Sellars

Simon Sellars — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:54:44 +0000

I can honestly say it was a very very tough call to pick just one film above all. I was/am quite blown away by the standard of entries.

By: Supervert

Supervert — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:45:58 +0000

The quality of the entries is impressive. I’m sure everyone will have his own favorite. I agree with the judges that Vista 8 is probably the most “ballardian.” Personally, though, I like Jack Strain and Mike Bonsall’s films best.

By: John Colenbrander

John Colenbrander — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:59:03 +0000

point taken, Simon.
however, artistry leads quickly to mannerism and style, a historically dead ally.
not that vista 8 is a bad film, on the contrary it is a very skilled film.

for me the films flesh frame and home could share a price.
lo-fi all the way with minimum interference of the ‘maker’, just one shot no fuzz.
these two films have this self-narrative puzzling quality. like auto-pilot takes control.
that is perhaps the golden future of film making: films without makers.
maybe your competition has struck on gold already.
looking forward to more of this Ballardian stuff.

By: Simon Sellars

Simon Sellars — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:59:44 +0000

wow, tough audience…

no one said the films couldn’t be ‘produced’ or have ‘effects’, it just had to be done in a very lo-fi way. even ballard’s call for a ‘fellini or godard of the home movie’ implies a certain artistry.

which was your favourite film, john?

By: John Colenbrander

John Colenbrander — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:54:37 +0000

I totally disagree with the choice of winner. being somehow over produced, to many cinematographic effects. in short to skilled.
while other entries seems just to happen, the winner’s video seems to be ‘made’.

the entries for the competition takes you to the dark room of you tube I watch.
I think the next competition should have a perpetual mechanism.
the deadline is pure indication and competitors should just ignore it
the results of the jury are, due to internal problems, postponed constantly to the
extent that a final conclusion is never reached.
at the end the whole thing gets out of control.

By: Mike Bonsall

Mike Bonsall — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:16:32 +0000

Excellent idea for a competition Simon, and some really great entries; imaginative, refreshing and appropriately disturbing. Ballardians of the world unite!