Alex Garland at TIFF

Academy Award-nominated writer-director Alex Garland (28 DAYS LATER, EX MACHINA) discusses the process of adapting and creating ANNIHILATION, his highly anticipated film based on the acclaimed Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer.

Client: TIFF
Producer/Editor: Adam Schoales
Director of Photography: Andrew Strapp

February 2018

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Writer/director Alex Garland explains how ANNIHILATION goes from “suburbia to psychedelia” with an ending that breaks all the rules — in a genre of films that rarely stick the landing — through a performance by Natalie Portman that recalls a last-act interaction in EX MACHINA between Ava (Alicia Vikander) and Kyoko’s (Sonoya Mizuno).

Client: TIFF
Producer/Editor: Adam Schoales
Director of Photography: Andrew Strapp

March 2018

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Director Alex Garland discusses the origins and meaning behind the internet's favourite Oscar Isaac dance sequence from the 2015 sci-fi hit EX MACHINA.

Client: TIFF
Producer/Editor: Adam Schoales
Director of Photography: Andrew Strapp

March 2018