Annihilation Minute
Annihilation Minute
Lemming Drops Studio
A podcast exploring the film Annihilation one minute of screentime per episode
their eyes met for a second; but they did not want to speak to each other
Lena strikes the Humanoid, the Humanoid strikes Lena, Lena tries to escape, the Humanoid pins her against the door, and we look at choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith and the dance language Gaga, in #Annihilation minute 98.
Apr 9, 2021
20 min
stroking with its silver fingers some sealed vessel in her brain whose bursting would flood her with delight
The dance between Lena and the Humanoid begins, Doctor Who interrupts, and it's all very straightforward in #Annihilation minute 97.
Apr 2, 2021
18 min
and it seemed to her like her own eyes meeting her own eyes
We start to delve into details from the second #SouthernReach novel, #Authority, as the mandelbulb transforms into a featureless humanoid and Lena reacts violently in #Annihilation minute 96.
Mar 26, 2021
16 min
in the midst of chaos there was shape; this eternal passing and flowing
As Lena stares into the alien light in #Annihilation minute 95, we delve into Ballardian fiction, the history of fractal geometry, plus Groundhog Day and masculine vs feminine quests.
Mar 19, 2021
23 min
a wedge-shaped core of darkness
Ventress explodes into living light and Lena looks on, in #Annihilation minute 94.
Mar 12, 2021
10 min
all the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated
Beneath the lighthouse, Ventress (as solificatio, as death's head, as the sun) speaks for the last time as the shimmer takes over. #Annihilation minute 93.
Mar 5, 2021
18 min
there was always a woman dying of cancer even here
An eyeless Dr Ventress quotes Samuel Beckett, and Lena enters the alien chamber in #Annihilation minute 92.
Feb 26, 2021
15 min
this core of darkness could go anywhere
In the script, Lena finds strange living sculptures beneath the lighthouse, flashback to the biologist finding the living writing in the tower in the novel; in the film Lena enters the biomechanical space where a transformed Ventress waits. #Annihilation minute 91.
Feb 19, 2021
20 min
all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be
From Cain & Abel to phosphorous grenades, the birth of elements within stars to Buddha on a lotus flower, Kane burns, Lena watches, and others linger nearby in #Annihilation minute 90.
Feb 12, 2021
16 min
when life sank down for a moment
One Kane sits contemplating his self, another Kane waits out of frame to be revealed, and we begin to explore the Jungian shadow self in #Annihilation minute 89.
Feb 5, 2021
14 min
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