{"id":6327,"date":"2016-03-29T03:53:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T02:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/?p=6327"},"modified":"2016-03-30T04:18:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T03:18:38","slug":"always-crashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2016\/03\/29\/always-crashing\/","title":{"rendered":"Always (crashing)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Always<\/a>
Always (crashing)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\nFormat:<\/B> Cinema + VOD

\nScreens exclusively at HOME<\/a> (Manchester) or Curzon Home Cinema<\/a>

\nRelease date:<\/B> 25 March 2016

\nDirectors:<\/B> Simon Barker, Jason Wood

\nUK 2015

\n15 mins\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A post-Ballardian reverie on cars and modernity.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

Specially commissioned by Manchester\u2019s new cultural centre HOME<\/a> to accompany the release of Ben Wheatley\u2019s Ballard adaptation High Rise<\/i><\/a>, Jason Wood and Simon Barker\u2019s short film Always (crashing)<\/i> is an abstract contemplation of the modern artefacts that fascinated the writer, infused with a dose of Chris Petit alienation. A car endlessly, obsessively circles around a car park to an inhumanly soothing ambient track, intercut with extracts from Ballard\u2019s short story \u2018Report on an unidentified space station\u2019. In a way, this metal and concrete reverie is more post-Ballardian than Ballardian: the film eschews the collision between man and modern machine favoured by the writer; instead it loops around a world strangely devoid of people, the driver of the car a mere silhouette glimpsed through the window, framed by the lines and pillars of the car park, as if modernity had finally eliminated the human. <\/p>\n

Virginie Sélavy<\/B><\/I><\/p>\n

Always (crashing)<\/i> screens with selected showings of High-Rise<\/em> between 25 – 31 March 2016 only.<\/div>\n
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A post-Ballardian reverie on cars and modernity.
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