Susanna Clark talks about how she was directly inspired by two Borges short stories (which I then bought but haven’t got round to reading, although I did read a different one that was similarly evocative of lost worlds). Also, my friend Ben wrote a film that, although not set in a labyrinth, has a similar haunting vibe of the Back Rooms. It’s about a man wakes up every day trapped in the same house. And every day, a monster comes to kill him. It’s years old now but it’s really stayed with me https://youtu.be/HPmGUwqB5io?si=ORVMMqZBnLcmANrU
The very banality of these rooms makes them all the more unsettling--there are no interesting or attractive details to distract one from their eeriness.
unsettling indeed the videos are amazing and absorbing in a scary way. All without content but anxietymaking as is the current world. PS my former priest just wrote a sermon about hypnotherapy ending in a genuine religious experience. Keep challenging us -- an old admirer P
Another person telling me to read Piranesi... I might have to actually go for it this time. It's been on my tbr for a while!!
seriously. DO
Susanna Clark talks about how she was directly inspired by two Borges short stories (which I then bought but haven’t got round to reading, although I did read a different one that was similarly evocative of lost worlds). Also, my friend Ben wrote a film that, although not set in a labyrinth, has a similar haunting vibe of the Back Rooms. It’s about a man wakes up every day trapped in the same house. And every day, a monster comes to kill him. It’s years old now but it’s really stayed with me https://youtu.be/HPmGUwqB5io?si=ORVMMqZBnLcmANrU
Fascinating! Also Industry (haven’t seen it but same premise I hear)
The very banality of these rooms makes them all the more unsettling--there are no interesting or attractive details to distract one from their eeriness.
I am minded of the story of Plato's cave and Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. Also of living. Life itself.
I loved Piranesi - couldn’t stop thinking about it for months afterwards.
unsettling indeed the videos are amazing and absorbing in a scary way. All without content but anxietymaking as is the current world. PS my former priest just wrote a sermon about hypnotherapy ending in a genuine religious experience. Keep challenging us -- an old admirer P