JG Ballard Documentary - The Unlimited Dream Company – Archive & Interviews
- Ben Samuel
- 4 days ago
- 2 min read
This JG Ballard documentary assembles decades of interviews and archival material to paint a striking portrait of one of the most imaginative and provocative writers of the 20th century.
This found-footage documentary explores the origins of Ballard’s obsessions, the eeriness of his predictions, and the strange beauty of the worlds he created. A bold, immersive exploration of a mind that continues to shape our cultural imagination.
Watch a trailer here...
Watch the full film on my Youtube channel and on my Films page as well as below..
Featuring interviews and archive footage of JG Ballard from decades of interviews on television and radio. Including audio and video from the interviews below and more.. Shanghai Jim : J.G. Ballard (1991) Directed by James Runcie
I encourage everyone to seek out and watch the full interviews and films featured in this film. In particular, The South Bank Show episode, the Face to Face interview, the BBC Bookmark "Shanghai Jim" episode, the Crash! short film, and The Unlimited Dream Company are especially worth watching, they form a significant contribution to J. G. Ballard’s legacy. I provide the links above so that you can watch them in their entirety.
Fiction and reality often merged throughout Ballard’s life and so the interviews used in the film form part of the overarching themes of Ballard’s life and work, as well as being fascinating in their own right. J. G. Ballard was always extremely generous with his time and was an engaging and witty interviewee.
It is fitting that Steven Spielberg made a film of Empire of the Sun in (1987) and Ballard got to see his life become a filmed fiction. The film is worth watching as a fictionalised account of his experience as it is a film in it's own right, the Novel even more worth your time. The film Crash is also very much worth watching, the Novel can be purchased here. Finally my film takes it's title from a lesser read novel by JG Ballard that is my personal favourite, The Unlimited Dream Company, the novel can be purchased here. JG Ballard (1930) - (2009)
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