Annihilation Minute

Apr 08 2021 102 ep. 15 mins 52
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A podcast exploring the film Annihilation one minute of screentime per episode

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their eyes met for a second; but they did not want to speak to each other

Apr 08 2021 20 mins  
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.

stroking with its silver fingers some sealed vessel in her brain whose bursting would flood her with delight

Apr 01 2021 18 mins  
The dance between Lena and the Humanoid begins, Doctor Who interrupts, and it's all very straightforward in #Annihilation minute 97.

and it seemed to her like her own eyes meeting her own eyes

Mar 25 2021 16 mins  
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.

in the midst of chaos there was shape; this eternal passing and flowing

Mar 18 2021 23 mins  
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.

a wedge-shaped core of darkness

Mar 11 2021 10 mins  
Ventress explodes into living light and Lena looks on, in #Annihilation minute 94.

all the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated

Mar 04 2021 18 mins  
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.

there was always a woman dying of cancer even here

Feb 25 2021 15 mins  
An eyeless Dr Ventress quotes Samuel Beckett, and Lena enters the alien chamber in #Annihilation minute 92.

this core of darkness could go anywhere

Feb 18 2021 20 mins  
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.

all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be

Feb 11 2021 16 mins  
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.

when life sank down for a moment

Feb 04 2021 14 mins  
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.