Year: 2009
Directors: Roland Vranik
Writers: Roland Vranik / András Barta
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Rick McGrath
Rating: 8 out of 10
Transmission: On
Ever wonder what it might be like to live in a world where no computer screens or TV monitors work? Ahh, you’re thinking – a snap. Who needs that stuff, anyway? Surprise… you’re going back to a basically agrarian lifestyle. And it’s not as much fun as you’d think. It could, in fact, drive you crazy.
And that’s the basis of Adás (literal translation: Transmission), a very odd little post-apocalyptic effort from Hungary, written by András Barta and Roland Vranik, who also directed. Transmission follows the unusual adventures of three brothers – Henrik, Vilmos and Ottó – as they try to adjust to this new communication-free environment.
And an odd place it is. Some things work, others don’t. There’s no electricity because power plants run on computers.
Directors: Roland Vranik
Writers: Roland Vranik / András Barta
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Rick McGrath
Rating: 8 out of 10
Transmission: On
Ever wonder what it might be like to live in a world where no computer screens or TV monitors work? Ahh, you’re thinking – a snap. Who needs that stuff, anyway? Surprise… you’re going back to a basically agrarian lifestyle. And it’s not as much fun as you’d think. It could, in fact, drive you crazy.
And that’s the basis of Adás (literal translation: Transmission), a very odd little post-apocalyptic effort from Hungary, written by András Barta and Roland Vranik, who also directed. Transmission follows the unusual adventures of three brothers – Henrik, Vilmos and Ottó – as they try to adjust to this new communication-free environment.
And an odd place it is. Some things work, others don’t. There’s no electricity because power plants run on computers.
- 8/20/2009
- QuietEarth.us
James Graham Ballard, 1930-2009
The world of the Imagination took a heavy hit the morning of Sunday, April 19 with the passing of literary great Jg Ballard, the iconoclastic author of "Crash," "The Drowned World" and "Empire of the Sun," as well as numerous other novels and short stories.
Born November 15, 1930 to wealthy parents in Shanghai’s international settlement, in 1942 Ballard’s storybook world fell swiftly apart after he and his family were interned for three years at the Japanese army’s civilian assembly camp at Lunghua, some ten miles south of the city centre. This experience had a life-altering effect on the young Ballard, as he really never recovered from the spectacle of watching the breakdown of reality as he knew it – he henceforth referred to reality as a "stage set" – and the motif of a psychically-damaged professional finding some kind of personal salvation in an otherwise apocalyptic world repeats...
The world of the Imagination took a heavy hit the morning of Sunday, April 19 with the passing of literary great Jg Ballard, the iconoclastic author of "Crash," "The Drowned World" and "Empire of the Sun," as well as numerous other novels and short stories.
Born November 15, 1930 to wealthy parents in Shanghai’s international settlement, in 1942 Ballard’s storybook world fell swiftly apart after he and his family were interned for three years at the Japanese army’s civilian assembly camp at Lunghua, some ten miles south of the city centre. This experience had a life-altering effect on the young Ballard, as he really never recovered from the spectacle of watching the breakdown of reality as he knew it – he henceforth referred to reality as a "stage set" – and the motif of a psychically-damaged professional finding some kind of personal salvation in an otherwise apocalyptic world repeats...
- 4/21/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Year: 2002
Release date: Unknown
Director: Solveig Nordlund
Writer: J.G. Ballard (story) & Solveig Nordlund & Colin Tucker & Jeanne Waltz
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Dr. Nathan
Rating: 8 out of 10
Their eyes are black bundles of optic nerves set deep in dark sockets. They only see a kind of fluorescent green. They wander mostly at night. They’re called Zotes. And they just keep on being born. And killed.
Add in a real abandoned Portuguese beach resort as a set, feature highly stylized lighting, take your plot from one of J.G. Ballard’s more disturbing short stories, and you’ve taken a seat in front of Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude (2002), Swedish director Solveig Nordlund’s artfully rendered riff on J.G. Ballard’s infanticidal 1976 short story, Low-Flying Aircraft.
If you’ve already read Ballard’s story, all you need to know is Nordlund’s adaptation involves shifting the plot’s point of...
Release date: Unknown
Director: Solveig Nordlund
Writer: J.G. Ballard (story) & Solveig Nordlund & Colin Tucker & Jeanne Waltz
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Dr. Nathan
Rating: 8 out of 10
Their eyes are black bundles of optic nerves set deep in dark sockets. They only see a kind of fluorescent green. They wander mostly at night. They’re called Zotes. And they just keep on being born. And killed.
Add in a real abandoned Portuguese beach resort as a set, feature highly stylized lighting, take your plot from one of J.G. Ballard’s more disturbing short stories, and you’ve taken a seat in front of Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude (2002), Swedish director Solveig Nordlund’s artfully rendered riff on J.G. Ballard’s infanticidal 1976 short story, Low-Flying Aircraft.
If you’ve already read Ballard’s story, all you need to know is Nordlund’s adaptation involves shifting the plot’s point of...
- 9/30/2008
- QuietEarth.us
A while ago I put out a plea looking for a copy of the 2002 film adaptation of Jg Ballard's Low-Flying Aircraft which was directed by Solveig Nordlund, and which unfortunately went unanswered. "This short story is set in a dystopian, Orwellian society which has been severely reduced in numbers and pregnancy requires a license. Laura and her husband, an employee of the government, hide her pregnancy and bear it in private." Onto the good news, the hands down best Ballard fan site Ballardian got an interview with director Solveig and some clips from both Low-Flying Aircraft and an earlier short of hers based on another Ballard story, Journey to Orion. Lfa ran the fest circuit and is unfortunately only available in Portugal without English subtitles. However, it did run on BBC4 in October of 2003. We're going to help give a push on this underexposed film (which I've been dying to...
- 8/24/2008
- QuietEarth.us
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