Crash
Audience Score
17 minDrama
Short film produced by the BBC about JG Ballards Crash The film was a product of the most experimental darkest phase of Ballards career It was an era of psychological blowback from the sudden shocking death of his wife in 1964 an era that had produced the cutup condensed novels of Atrocity plus a series of strange collages and advertisers announcements After Freuds exploration within the psyche it is now the outer world of reality which must be quantified and eroticised Later there were further literary experiments concrete poems and impressionistic film reviews and an aborted multimedia theatrical play based around car crashes After that came an actual gallery exhibition of crashed cars replete with strippers and the drunken destruction of the exhibits by an enraged audience from httpaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghblogspotde201301shortfilmadaptationofjgballardshtml
