‘Backrooms’ Creator Kane Parsons On Becoming A24’s Youngest Director Ever, Adapting His YouTube Series: “A Weird Dream Come True”

Born in 2005, the year YouTube launched, Backrooms director Kane Parsons has “always taken that for granted,” having the platform at his disposal.

“YouTube, really more than just being a cultural reference for me, has been how I know how to do any of the stuff I do,” he explains while discussing his “weird dream come true” debut as A24‘s youngest ever director, at just 20 years old.

Parsons (aka Kane Pixels) was 16 when he created his web series, The Backrooms: Found Footage, in 2022, itself inspired by a 2019 creepypasta photo on 4chan of what appears to be never-ending vacant office space. With many creative takes on the unsettling imagery popping up around the internet, Parsons’ series was a well-produced found footage adaptation that centered on the fictional Async Research Institute’s work studying the Backrooms (aka The Complex) as missing persons cases continue to escalate around the discovery.

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