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, geometry, 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?
