{"id":2789,"date":"2008-01-27T02:47:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T02:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2008-07-16T04:50:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T03:50:28","slug":"1st-ballardian-festival-of-home-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/01\/27\/1st-ballardian-festival-of-home-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Ballardian Festival of Home Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Via Ballardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In 1984 J.G. Ballard called for a \u2018Festival of Home Movies\u2019 and 24 years on we\u2019re happy to oblige: announcing our latest competition, to promote JGB\u2019s forthcoming autobiography, Miracles of Life<\/a><\/em>. Presented by ballardian.com<\/a> and HarperCollins UK<\/a>, the competition will utilise \u2018modern electronics\u2019 as specified above, of an especial type that Ballard with his prodigious clairvoyant powers came close to envisaging: the mobile phone (or cell phone, for our North American cousins).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The requirement is that you shoot a one-minute film on a Ballardian theme using your mobile phone’s video camera only, no post-production allowed. That’s too much for my Motorola (above) which has never proved itself able to record more than a few seconds of continuous video for reasons unknown. The competition prize is a copy of Miracles of Life<\/em> along with the forthcoming HarperCollins reissues of Ballard\u2019s Millennium People<\/a><\/em>, The Drought<\/a><\/em>, The Crystal World<\/a><\/em>, The Drowned World<\/a><\/em> and The Unlimited Dream Company<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

The constraints for this are pretty tough if all the editing has to be done in camera. I anticipate a lot of entries showing static shots of motorway traffic, windswept concrete vistas or imitations of CCTV. Anyone wishing for some offbeat inspiration can go and watch the One Minute Movies<\/a> made by The Residents<\/a> to accompany their Commercial Album<\/em> in 1980.<\/p>\n

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Via Ballardian: In 1984 J.G. Ballard called for a \u2018Festival of Home Movies\u2019 and 24 years on we\u2019re happy to oblige: announcing our latest competition, to promote JGB\u2019s forthcoming autobiography, Miracles of Life. Presented by ballardian.com and HarperCollins UK, the competition will utilise \u2018modern electronics\u2019 as specified above, of an especial type that Ballard with … Continue reading “1st Ballardian Festival of Home Movies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,7,20],"tags":[792,137,879],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-film","category-science-fiction","tag-ballardian","tag-jg-ballard","tag-the-residents"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-IZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}