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Shepperton's Oracle
Author: Simon Sellars • Jul 20th, 2006 •Category: Ballardosphere, film, Shepperton, television
Came across this post from the blog called ‘Postcards from the Future’. Interesting how Dubai pops up yet again in discussions about Ballard…
The post says: “Working on the movie about J.G Ballard “The Shepperton’s Oracle”, i’ve found…an extract of General Motors vision for the future in year 56’. “The Shepperton’s Oracle”, the movie about Ballard will be done with a lot of public domain movies. There are three part in the movie : the past, the present and the future. The last part (the future) will be a fictional stuff shoot in Dubaï during this year…”
That’s all I know about it. I don’t know if it’s a bio or a ‘mockumentary’, but the ‘public domain’ approach seems similar to Weiss. I’m trying to find out more from the blogger, a mysterious French filmmaker called ‘Vertigo’…
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Sorry for the self promotion, but you might be interested in this post I’ve written on the outsider in contemporary literature, citing Ballard along with Houellebecq and Pamuk:
http://www.logopolis.org.uk/weblog/2006/07/outsider.html