Flaunt, a culture and fashion magazine has an interview with Kane Parsons where he is looking very dapper indeed! Styled by the magazine in Gucci and Ballencia, Kane talks about liminal spaces, his early years on the Internet, and the transition to cinema.
When Parsons speaks about what draws people to liminal aesthetics, he considers dream logic, or as he puts it, “the misappropriation of semantic details onto arbitrary physical memories and whatnot.” It’s phenomenal in its artistic potential in the way that the best kind of story, or memory, or concept is one that relates to the masses but engages with members of that mass on a deeply individual level. “One of the defining features of what gets determined as a liminal space online is that it’s a medium that’s inherently insecure about itself, or lacks any kind of artistic forthcoming confidence…
One of the things that he also talks about is something that many of us fans had been concerned about if someone other than Kane were to make a Backrooms movie — that is that the writers don’t know the source material when digital IPs are made into a movie. How many video game movies do we see fail? And the Slenderman movie — another movie based off a Creepypasta —didn’t fare too well when it got the cinematic treatment.
“I was very paranoid, especially in the early days of working on this film, that we’d run into issues with things being forcibly conformed into a box…had I not been directing, I don’t think there would have been any awareness of the desires of all the people who want certain things from a Backrooms film…”
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