The Minotaur in House of Leaves The Minotaur in House of Leaves The Minotaur or Minotauros was the son born of lust to Queen Pasiphae of Crete and a bull. He had the body of a man and the head of a bull and was more beast than human. The creature was banished by King Minos to reside in the centre of a labyrinth in Knossos built by the ingenious architect Daedalus and his son Icarus. The Minotaur was nursed by Queen Pasiphae as a child but grew to devour humans, so he was safely put away in the maze contrived so carefully and trickily that
William Kurelek's The Maze to his father's farm (which is featured in "William Kurelek's The Maze"). Eventually the Youngs decided to use this material for a film currently in production, "Out of the Maze", featuring never-before-seen Kurelek paintings and offering "personal insights into [his] life and art."<ref name="TheMazeMovie.com/OutOfTheMaze">"In the Works: Out of the Maze", "William Kurelek's The Maze (Official Website)", 2011. Retrieved on 20 September 2013.</ref> The film's title is inspired by the 1971 Kurelek painting "Out of the Maze", a sequel to "The Maze", which William presented to Maudsley Hospital as a gift. At the center of the work is a family -