Annihilation Minute
102 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsA 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
April 09, 2021 01:00 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBLena 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
April 02, 2021 01:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MBThe 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
March 26, 2021 01:00 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBWe 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
March 19, 2021 01:00 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBAs 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
March 12, 2021 02:00 - 10 minutes - 9.89 MBVentress explodes into living light and Lena looks on, in #Annihilation minute 94.
all the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated
March 05, 2021 02:00 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBBeneath 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
February 26, 2021 02:00 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBAn eyeless Dr Ventress quotes Samuel Beckett, and Lena enters the alien chamber in #Annihilation minute 92.
this core of darkness could go anywhere
February 19, 2021 02:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBIn 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
February 12, 2021 02:00 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBFrom 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
February 05, 2021 02:00 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBOne 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.
her husband spoke. he was repeating something
January 29, 2021 02:00 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBFrom Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf to Aristotle to the Tao, from infant recognition of self to depersonalization, and from Kane to Kane to Lena, #Annihilation minute 88.
watching it with fascination, hypnotised
January 22, 2021 02:00 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBLena finds camcorder footage of the previous expedition, and in the script we see a lot more of what happened to them, in #Annihilation minute 87.
beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep
January 15, 2021 02:00 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBLena enters the lighthouse and finds something unexpected in #Annihilation minute 86.
which curved and welled and broke upon the beach
January 08, 2021 02:00 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBIn the novel, Lena sees a pair of dolphins; in the script, she picks up a skull at the scene of a massacre; in the film she marches past crystalline trees and a makeshift graveyard to reach the lighthouse. #Annihilation minute 85
her horizon seemed to her limitless
December 25, 2020 02:00 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBFrom Lena's past to her present, alone on the shore, samsara, dukkha, and the crystalline structures that connect us together. Annihilation minute 84.
what was the spirit in her, the essential thing, by which, had you found a glove in the corner of a sofa, you would have known it, from its twisted finger, hers indisputably?
December 18, 2020 02:00 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBLena, future, past, present, alone. And we discuss the inclusion of #HenriettaLacks in #Annihilation minute 83.
the sense that everything this morning was happening for the first time, perhaps for the last time
December 11, 2020 02:00 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBRadek gives in to the shimmer and Lena is left alone in #Annihilation minute 82.
for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private
December 04, 2020 02:00 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBLena and Radek talk, and we delve into the calm before ending things in Annihilation minute 81. We can all help prevent suicide. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals. 1-800-273-TALK.
why take such a gloomy view of life
November 20, 2020 02:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBLena sits beside Radek and we look into the Tao of water and self harm in Annihilation minute 80. IN A CRISIS? Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a Crisis Counselor Free 24/7 support at your fingertips US and Canada: text 741741 UK: text 85258 | Ireland: text 50808
that meagre fixity, that bare unloveliness
November 13, 2020 02:00 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBVentress leaves. We linger on plant people. Radek settles in. Annihilation minute 79.
sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances
November 06, 2020 02:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBRadek kills the bear, the bear has a name, and Ventress prepares to leave on her own, in Annihilation minute 78.
she had it on the tip of her tongue to say
October 30, 2020 01:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBLena struggles with her bindings, Thorensen battles with the bear, and we get sidetracked by Ungnyeo and the Korean origin myth in #Annihilation minute 77.
so he bent his head courteously in her direction
October 23, 2020 01:00 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBThe bear enters, and we explore behind-the-scenes details and what the bear means, in Annihilation minute 76.
it was that horrid skull again
October 16, 2020 01:00 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MBthe women hear sheppard screaming and the bear enters the house in annihilation minute 75.
how did she exist in this portentous atmosphere
October 09, 2020 01:00 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBWe run from Penelope to alcoholism as Thorensen's last prayer comes to its end in Annihilation minute 74.
wishing to dominate, wishing to interfere, making people do what she wished
October 02, 2020 01:00 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBThorensen continues to rant, the other three women bound and gagged, and we explore more on Penelope, on Homer being female, and what constitutes women's work. Annihilation minute 73.
whispering in her ear, 'women can't paint, women can't write...'
September 25, 2020 01:00 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBLena, Radek, and Ventress tied to chairs and gagged. Women silenced. Annihilation minute 72.
she knew it was poetry from the rhythm and the ring of exaltation and melancholy in his voice
September 18, 2020 01:00 - 5 minutes - 4.74 MBEchoes of Daniel, echoes of Kane, as Thorensen lashes out in her moment of pain. Annihilation minute 71.
he went to the heart of things
September 11, 2020 01:00 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBMore DNA poetry and Orpheus begins to blend with Odysseus as Daniel challenges Lena regarding their affair in Annihilation minute 70.
at the other end of the table her husband
September 04, 2020 01:00 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBLena examines her own blood, and we examine modern manipulation of DNA before finding Lena in bed with Daniel in Annihilation minute 69.
then there it was, suddenly entire shaped in her hands
August 28, 2020 01:00 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBSettling into a familiar house, Thorensen sees something in her own hands and Lena starts a secret examination in Annihilation minute 68.
with its shiny walls and its confusion
August 21, 2020 01:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBThe remaining women enter a familiar, but strangely different, house, in Annihilation minute 67.
here she was, she reflected, feeling life rather sinister again
August 14, 2020 01:00 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBRadek figures out what is happening in the shimmer, but neither Lena nor Thorensen are happy about it, in Annihilation minute 66.
she could see her now, stooping over her flowers
August 07, 2020 01:00 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBThorensen fumes, Lena examines a topiary child, Radek begins to figure things out, and we get sidetracked by Swamp Thing, in Annihilation minute 65.
what power could now prevent the fertility, the insensibility of nature?
July 31, 2020 01:00 - 9 minutes - 8.87 MBLena wonders if something is wrong with Thorensen and the four remaining women arrive at Ville Perdu in Annihilation minute 64.
and such vast spaces lay between them
July 24, 2020 01:00 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBLena looks at Sheppard's body then returns to the other women in Annihilation minute 63.
but into what sanctuary had one penetrated?
July 17, 2020 01:00 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBThe strange deer run away and we delve into the story of Actaeon and Diana before Lena finds Sheppard's body in Annihilation minute 62.
the still space that lies about the heart of things
June 19, 2020 01:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBLena separates from the other women to see if Sheppard is still alive, she finds a deer, and we look at Pokemon, Baron Munchausen, and Pere David's Deer, in Annihilation minute 61.
like a pair of boots that has been soaked and gone dry
June 12, 2020 01:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBBack within the Shimmer, Ventress leads the way through the forest and they come upon a boot, in Annihilation minute 60.
as they turned by the cross roads
June 05, 2020 01:00 - 8 minutes - 7.82 MBLena convinces Thorensen and Radek to keep going, and we flash forward to Lena in the interrogation room, in Annihilation minute 59.
how they would retreat into solitude together, and walk on and on
May 29, 2020 01:00 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBThorensen wants to turn back, Ventress wants to go ahead, even if she is on her own, and Lena must decide what happens next in Annihilation minute 58.
and then took her hand away suddenly
May 22, 2020 01:00 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBSheppard is gone. Thorensen and Radek want to turn back. Ventress wants to go forward. And, we look into the death of the anthropologist in the novel, in #Annihlation minute 57.
like god himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures
May 15, 2020 01:00 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBSomething comes through the fence, and it takes Sheppard away, in #Annihilation minute 56.
they kept their heads very low, and said things shortly and gruffly
May 08, 2020 01:00 - 11 minutes - 11 MBLena's and Ventress' conversation about self-destruction is interrupted in #Annihilation minute 55.
for ever, to nothingness
May 01, 2020 01:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBLena asks Ventress about why Kane volunteered for a suicide machine and they (and I) discuss self-destruction, in #Annihilation minute 54.
and the lives of all the people in the world
April 24, 2020 01:00 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MBLena finds Ventress alone with a map in #Annihilation minute 53, and we sample J G Ballard on cataclysmic science fiction.
there was a sense of things having been blown apart, of space, of irresponsibility
April 17, 2020 01:00 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBLena is troubled by what she sees in the microscope, then she and Sheppard share a quiet moment in the guard tower in #Annihilation minute 52.
how could any lord have made this world?
April 10, 2020 01:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBKane leaves, Orpheus fails to retrieve Eurydice, Lena awakens in the middle of the night. #Annihilation minute 51.
this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures
April 03, 2020 01:00 - 21 minutes - 20 MBBefore we flashback to Lena and Kane on his day of departure, we get sidetracked by Orpheus and Eurydice in #Annihilation minute 50.
one could not help attaching oneself to one thing
March 13, 2020 01:00 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MBLena, Sheppard, and Ventress move closer to Mayer's exploded body while Radek and Thorensen back away, in #Annihilation minute 49.