House of Leaves
Ostensibly, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, is about a young man who finds a manuscript in a dead man’s apartment. This experimental novel, released in 2000, takes a cinematic approach to the novel – creating a novel experience in time and space.
The dead man, Zampano, was an elderly blind man writing an academic critique of The Navidson Record; a documentary about a family moving into a home in Virginia, which happens to be bigger on the inside. At the center of Danielewski’s work is the question, “What is real?”
How do humans interact with the space they inhabit? How do they interact with the stories around them?
Links
- Room 237
- Macbeth: A Novel, audible
- The Poetics of Space, by Gaston Bachelard
Jen Bravo
President
Jennifer Bravo Consulting, Inc.
Stacy Patterson
Program Manager
USC Cinematic Arts
Zenya Prowell
Writer
Lisa Schweitzer
Professor
USC Price School of Public Policy
Thank you to our co-producers Aubrey Hicks and
Jonathan Schwartz as well as our beloved sound supervisors, The Brothers Hedden.
Recorded at the USC Price School.
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