The Yellow Wallpaper & A24's Backrooms
Everyone is talking about A24's Backrooms, a new movie directed by Kane Parsons. If you have never heard of Kane Parsons, perhaps you have heard of Kane Pixels. That was the name the director went by on YouTube about four years ago when he released his short film Backrooms and then dived into several other shorts related to this concept of liminal spaces—spaces that exist in perhaps some parallel dimension and seem to go on forever. They are made up of things like abandoned department stores, office buildings, and warehouses that have been abandoned to time and memory, exploring the idea of what lies beneath these areas and what realms exist in our memory. He toyed with this idea four years ago and it went viral—so much so that he ended up getting a deal. There has been a whole lot of debate online as to whether or not this 20-year-old filmmaker actually directed this film. I think it revolves around the concept of whether he could really give acting direction to such acting jugge...