PLANET NERIIDAE
On PLANET NERIIDAE, home of the neriidae flies, an avocado lies in peaceful decay. To us, it browns and rots; to them, it pulses with life. They circle the fruit, taste its pulp, sense its surrender, and place their eggs in its yielding flesh — the fruit that keeps giving.
Time moves differently here. Tissues self-digest, enzymes unravel structure, the air fills with ethylene — once (perhaps) accidental, now a clear signal of readiness. Rot is just another shape of life, and death is nothing but transformation. What fades for one becomes sustenance for another. All life eventually decays, yet nothing truly vanishes. Each form of matter, energy, and information melts back into the greater body of existence.
In this slow surrender, scale begins to blur. The drama of decomposition mirrors the turning of galaxies, the dissolving of stars into dust and dust into form. What appears small, a fruit softening, participates in the same choreography as planets in orbit. The cellular and the cosmic obey the same patient intelligence — an unspoken agreement to become something else.
From the microscopic to the mythic, this short film is an intimate study that is at once scientific, poetic and hypnotically alive. By inhabiting the point of view of the flies, we are invited to reconsider the boundaries between life and death, self and environment, consumption and creation — all dissolving into the pulsing planet of a single fruit.
PLANET NERIIDAE
I began to search
for a place to go
upon traveling, I remembered
what I was looking for
I had to prepare myself
to prove my strength
to find the fruit that keeps giving
I began to search
the crack within
to reach the crumbling flesh
— I sheltered
the fallen fruit slowly melting
I began to suckle
its pulpous sap
ripening in its own juice
— I entered
the fertile feast of self digestion
and there I realized
I shall place my eggs here
that my children shall be born
upon the fruit that keeps giving
that my children shall be born
upon the fruit that keeps giving
A film by Double Being
Cinematography & Editing — Marisa
Soundtrack — Michael
Poetry — Marisa
