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 2nd, 2021 18m 37s

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 26th, 2021 16m 16s

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 19th, 2021 23m 22s

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 12th, 2021 10m 48s

Ventress explodes into living light and Lena looks on, in #Annihilation minute 94.

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

Mar 5th, 2021 18m 54s

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 26th, 2021 15m 5s

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 19th, 2021 20m 19s

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. #An

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

Feb 12th, 2021 16m 29s

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 5th, 2021 14m 24s

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.

her husband spoke. he was repeating something

Jan 29th, 2021 14m 41s

From 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

Jan 22nd, 2021 11m 46s

Lena 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

Jan 15th, 2021 20m 13s

Lena enters the lighthouse and finds something unexpected in #Annihilation minute 86.

which curved and welled and broke upon the beach

Jan 8th, 2021 13m 56s

In 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

Dec 25th, 2020 18m 55s

From 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?

Dec 18th, 2020 16m 54s

Lena, 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

Dec 11th, 2020 15m 21s

Radek 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

Dec 4th, 2020 22m 24s

Lena 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, prev

why take such a gloomy view of life

Nov 20th, 2020 15m 38s

Lena 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 CounselorFree 24/7 support at your fingertips US and Canada: text 741741 UK: text 852

that meagre fixity, that bare unloveliness

Nov 13th, 2020 15m 44s

Ventress leaves. We linger on plant people. Radek settles in. Annihilation minute 79.

sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances

Nov 6th, 2020 13m 10s

Radek 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

Oct 30th, 2020 21m 9s

Lena struggles with her bindings, Thorensen battles with the bear, and we get sidetracked by Ungnyeo and the Korean origin myth in #Annihilation minute 77.