Ballardian Festival of Home Movies

1st BALLARDIAN FESTIVAL OF HOME MOVIES:
For 1-minute films shot on camera phones
"I’d like to organize a Festival of Home Movies! It could be wonderful — thousands of the things… You might find an odd genius, a Fellini or Godard of the home movie, living in some suburb. I’m sure it’s coming… Using modern electronics, home movie cameras and the like, one will begin to retreat into one’s own imagination. I welcome that…"
J.G. Ballard, quoted in ‘Interview with JGB by Graeme Revell’, RE/Search No. 8/9, 1984.
THE PRIZE
Selected entries will be hosted on ballardian.com and the winner will receive a copy of J.G. Ballard's new autobiography Miracles of Life along with the forthcoming HarperCollins reissues of Ballard’s Millennium People, The Drought, The Crystal World, The Drowned World and The Unlimited Dream Company.
REQUIREMENTS
+ Shoot a film using your mobile (cell) phone’s video function, no more than one minute in duration, and using no post-production or processing — the film must be shot entirely ‘in camera’.
+ The theme: anything at all to do with either one or both of the Collins English Dictionary definitions of ‘Ballardian’, as follows:
"BALLARDIAN: (adj) 1. of James Graham Ballard (J.G. Ballard; born 1930), the British novelist, or his works. (2) resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in Ballard’s novels & stories, esp. dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes & the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments."
More information is available at http://www.ballardian.com/1st-ballardian-festival-of-home-mo vies.
+ Email your footage to ballardianfilm at ballardian dot com.
+ Closing date for submissions: February 20.
Entries will be judged by Simon Sellars of ballardian.com and John Rivers from the HarperCollins digital wing.
Sincere thanks to HarperCollins for generously sponsoring this event. And as always, special thanks to J.G. Ballard for continual and ongoing inspiration.
"Everybody will be doing it, everybody will be living inside a TV studio. That’s what the domestic home aspires to these days; the home is going to be a TV studio. We’re all going to be starring in our own sit-coms, and they’ll be strange sit-coms, too, like the inside of our heads. That’s going to come, I’m absolutely sure of that, and it’ll really shake up everything…"
J.G. Ballard, quoted in ‘Interview with JGB by Andrea Juno and Vale’, RE/Search No. 8/9, 1984.