House of Leaves: Johnny Truant

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I've been meaning to do a Johnny-centric HoL trailer for some time. I originally planned this to be very fast and dark with shots of tattoo needles, blood and splintered wood. but I got lazy and this is what I ended up with. Lude was also supposed to appear in this, but I couldn't think of a suitable actor for him(suggestions, anyone?), neither could I come up with anyone to be Thumper. In the end though I chose footage of a tweaked out looking Ryan Gosling and I'm pretty pleased with how it worked in the video.

There's also some random imagery thrown in. A sidewalk memorial, my broken attic doorknob, notebook scribblings, my Tegan & Sara book. Plus, I threw in some clips of random actresses to symbolize the string of women Johnny comes across in the book.

I know not everyone cared for the Radiohead song I used in my previous HoL video, which is fine, but I really felt this one helped create a certain eerie atmosphere. While I did try a few other tracks, none of them fit naturally with the footage. I just couldn't get away from Radiohead's Talk Show Host, because it was simply the only track that felt ''right'' for a Johnny video.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• House of Leaves
• The Navidson Record
• Johnny Truant
• Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Whalestoe Letters
• Poe

[JosephWagoner16]

Wow! Well done, thanks!



[numba1pinoy]

@iddiols1 hahahahahhaha

[delshayDiCamilliano]

@iddiols1 LOL

[iddiols1]

@hiddendragonjpn Because it is Thom Yorke, dufus.

[justanoli]

I am so sad that this doesn't have more views.

[poebelly]

Awesome. Flat out awesome.

[vaguelyhumanoid]

This is genius.

Better than the Navidson one, even.

If you know a band "the pAper chAse" I think they'd be perfect for the Navidson story.

Maybe a third for the Three Attic Whalestoe Letters?

[GalaRxn11]

gr8! love the song !

[laraalicia07]

great...