Always (Crashing)

“What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.”

Coinciding with the release of High-Rise, we present a celebration of J.G Ballard, an author whose work is distinctly cinematic in style. The title of the season comes from a newly commissioned film work focusing on Ballardian tropes: the car, architecture and environments founded on the notion of control, that are actually teetering on the brink of collapse.

Want to delve deeper into the season? Click here to read an article by Jason Wood, our Artistic Director: Film.

Previously in this season

Alphaville

Eddie Constantine stars as intergalactic hero Lemmy Caution, on a mission to kill the inventor of fascist computer Alpha 60. A brilliant fusion of sci-fi,…

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High-Rise

Tom Hiddleston is pitch-perfect as Robert Laing, a young doctor living in a brutalist, luxury apartment block structured according to a rigid social hierarchy. As…

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Double Bill: La Jetée + Sans Soleil

This double bill showcases Marker’s best known works. The former is one of the most influential sci-fi films of all time, the latter is a…

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The Atrocity Exhibition

And people said Crash was unfilmable! One of Ballard’s most complex and influential and unconventional works is painstakingly translated to the screen by Jonathan Weiss.…

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Empire of the Sun

Spielberg’s adaptation of Ballard’s memoir of his Shanghai childhood is a characteristically conventional work but it is still effective in capturing the horrors of war…

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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

The second, and best, installment in the original Mad Max trilogy, George Miller’s vision of an apocalyptic society in which cars and more importantly gasoline…

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