An Exhibition of Atrocities: J.G. Ballard on Mondo films
By Ballardian • Aug 12th, 2008 •
Category: America, Lead Story, Pacific, WWII, alternate worlds, archival, boredom, conspiracy theory, film, music, politics, postmodernism, psychopathology, television, war
With thanks to Headpress books, here’s an interview with JGB conducted by Mark Goodall in 2006 for his book Sweet & Savage: The World Through the Shockumentary Film Lens. The interview covers JGB’s admiration for the Mondo Cane films of Gualtiero Jacopetti, so-called ’shockumentaries’ that in their artfully faked scenarios present what Ballard terms ‘an elective psychopathy that would change the world (so we hoped, naively)’.
