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Archive for the ‘animation’ Category

Ann Lislegaard: 'Crystal World (after J.G. Ballard)'

By Simon Sellars • Dec 12th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Fredric Jameson, animation, entropy, enviro-disaster, science fiction, visual art

A slew of information on Ann Lislegaard, the brilliant artist behind ‘Crystal World (after J.G. Ballard’, the mesmerising animation that showed at the recent JGB exhibition in Barcelona. Includes links to an interview, video excerpts and stills.


Unique visual complexities: A review of Grande Anarca

By Jamie Sherry • Aug 19th, 2008 •

Category: Ambit magazine, Chris Marker, David Cronenberg, Italy, Steven Spielberg, Tarkovsky, animation, architecture, film, literature, medical procedure, religion, reviews, short stories, surveillance, urban decay

Jamie Sherry reviews a unique on-screen adaptation of Ballard’s work, now showing on BallardoTube: the Italian animation, Grande Anarca, based on JGB’s 1985 short story, ‘Answers to A Questionnaire’. Can the filmmakers succeed where other, big-name suitors have failed — decanting Ballard’s experimental literary narratives into a more linear cinematic language? Or does Ballard resist classification yet again?