They include a therapist-in-training grappling with daughters as demanding as her patients an ambitious East L.A. The Familiar (Volume 1) ranges from Mexico to Southeast Asia, from Venice, Italy, to Venice, California, with nine lives hanging in the balance, each called upon to make a terrifying choice. The narrator in this production is Jim NortonĪ Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4.From the author of the international best seller House of Leaves and National Book Award–nominated Only Revolutions comes a monumental new novel as dazzling as it is riveting. This dramatic piece re-imagines the terrifying heart of the story. House of Leaves is the remarkable cult novel by Mark Z Danielewsky, a labyrinth of its own kind with its multiple interwoven narratives and textual tricks. The cameras rolled and they descended, and here's the audio. So Navidson equipped his brother Tom and others for an expedition, as if they were embarking on a quest into some architectural jungle. Not long afterwards the spiral staircase appeared, corkscrewing downwards to a dark infinity. He found rooms beyond rooms, all windowless, all unlit, and only narrowly escaped becoming lost forever in the labyrinth. But one night after a row, Navidson opened the door and went in. Will Navidson, celebrated adventure photographer, was intrigued, his partner Karen insisted that the door be permanently locked. With these words Zampano preludes the excerpts from an extraordinary film, cut together by Will Navidson from cameras located within his house and those he took with him into the labyrinth that had sprung up there over the course of a few days.Īccording to the Navidson record, it was when the family returned to the house from a trip to Seattle that they first discovered the additional door and the space behind it. Some insist it must be true, others believe it is a trick on a par with the Orson Welles radio romp The War of the Worlds. 'The Navidson Record now stands as part of this country's cultural experience and yet, in spite of the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have seen it, the film continues to remain an enigma.

Friday Drama: Recordings Recovered from the House of Leavesįirst broadcast: Fri 28th Oct 2011, 21:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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