Editorial by Simon Sellars: My first exposure to serious architectural discourse came from the novels of J.G. Ballard, which feature a series of failed architects.… Read More »AR 125: Architecture and the Arts (June/July 2012)
Originally published in Architectural Review Australia, issue 123. All photography by Simon Sellars. Expanding on the theme of the 2011 SCAPE Biennial in Christchurch, Simon… Read More »Red Zone: the Regeneration of Christchurch
Originally published in the Norwegian-language magazine Vagant, May-August 2011, pp. 10-11. In 1986, Christian Bale, as a child actor, made his breakthrough in Steven Spielberg’s… Read More »In Defence of the Virtual: A Secret History of Ballardian Film Adaptations
This is an earlier version of an article published in Continuum, Volume 24, Issue 5 October 2010, pages 721-33. Both versions were based on a… Read More »‘Flesh dissolved in an acid of light’: the b-movie as second sight
ABOVE: ‘London after the Rain’, by Ben Olszyna-Marzys. A film produced for Nic Clear’s Unit 15 course, ‘Crash: Architectures of the Near Future’. Originally published… Read More »‘Architectures of the Near Future’: An Interview with Nic Clear
Best Film Award, Tropfest 07: ‘An Imaginary Life’ (Steve Baker). Originally published on Sleepy Brain, 1 April 2007. On April 7 Channel Nine, accompanied by… Read More »Tropfest 2007: The Theme is Shit
Flyer for Northern Void. Originally published on Sleepy Brain, 19 February 2007. Last night I attended the second (and last, for now) screening of Philip… Read More »Philip Brophy: Northern Void
by Simon Sellars Victor Slezak as ‘T’ in The Atrocity Exhibition Ballardian presents an exclusive interview with Jonathan Weiss, director of The Atrocity Exhibition, the… Read More »‘Thirsty Man at the Spigot’: An Interview with Jonathan Weiss
Matthew Saville is the writer/director of Roy Hollsdotter Live, one of the more successful of the recent batch of 50-minute short features funded by the… Read More »Matthew Saville: Bleak Is A Really Nice Place
There’s a unique sense of overload for the first-time visitor to Tokyo. Intricate layers-upon-layers of ever-shifting urban culture crush the hapless tourist, who’s invariably pressed… Read More »Mitomi Tokoto: Japanese Cyber-Kid