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WOMB (aka Clone 2010)
What? Why? How? Reproductive technologies and the biotech revolution have rarely become sexy cinematic subjects or attractive to contemporary directors and it’s always been a mystery why. Do you consider Jurassic Park a biotech movie? Probably not. Well its rife with cloning, extracting ancient DNA, Polymerase Chain Reaction tech and depicts bio engineers as the…
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BBC documentary about JG Ballard – Shanghai Jim (1991)
JG Ballard Shanghai Jim Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessel are the written mythologies of memory and desire. — J.G. Ballard, Ambit magazine, 1967 Here is a small documentary made by BBC about the life of science fiction author JG Ballard (Crash, Atrocity Exhibition, Vermillion Sands, High Rise…