J.G. Ballard in Crash

On a Sunday in April

Once late at night, I discovered this film on TV, Crash by David Cronenberg, and it was pretty strange at first. The title is quite a good explanation of what is the content of the movie, a very psychological and sociological presentation of the car as the most representative object of the last century in our society with its sexual side. It’s only recently that I discovered the origins of that movie, the great mind behind this idea, the writterJ.G. Ballard. Sadly, he died in 2009, but his science-fiction books and other writtings influenced many artists, like Joy Division for example. Ballard’s cloud is really big and it will need some times for me to follow his traces, but I want first to read more of his works. The man leaves but the ideas stay. I give you here some link for interview with the man, a written one on Streptos Music and a video interview about Millenium People and more (part1, part2). Then you can watch this short film, called Crash, realised by the BBC and starring J.G. Ballard.