At 16, Parsons published The Backrooms (Found Footage), which would go viral and be expanded into a series of shorts. Parsons directed a film adaptation of the series. The film was first announced to be in development at A24 in February 2023, and was filmed in the summer of 2025.[2][3][4]
Early life
Kane Parsons was born on June 18, 2005. His interest in visual effects started with LittleBigPlanet. He would work on environments and lighting in the engine. Parsons got Adobe After Effects around winter 2017. Around a few months later, He wanted to do a video set in the universe of Little Nightmares, compelling Parsons to learn After Effects. He watched tutorials whenever he had questions for any project, expanding his knowledge as time moved on. In February 2020, Parsons downloaded Blender. He would start to learn Blender as time passed. Prior to that, he worked on Element 3D, being apart of After Effects. Blender helped him and gave him what he felt as creative freedom. Parsons felt that 2020 was the best year for his skill growth.[5]
When Parsons was 8, he developed an interest in music when practicing the piano. He would play and practice the piano for two years. The experience taught him the basics and gave him interest in music. He further test and fidget around GarageBand on his school-issued iPad in middle school. On July of 2020, Parsons got a trail of FL studios. He was satisfied by the work he was making, resulting him getting one of the paid version. He would release some of his music on his SoundCloud and Youtube music channel. Parsons' music channel would gather attention and grow in 2024 after the release of The Backrooms (Found Footage). [5]
Backrooms is a science fictionhorror web series, starting on January 7, 2022. It revolves around the fictional Async Research Institute studying, exploring, and utilizing the dimension called the Backrooms.
Parsons started working on "The Backrooms (Found Footage)" in late 2021; being inspired by an image of the Backrooms creepypasta saved to his computer. Later releasing on January 7, 2022 on YouTube, Parsons intended the short film to be a single entry and didn't expect it to accumulate many views. The video started to gain popularity a few days later, gaining around 68 million views as of September of 2025. Prior the upload, Parsons had an unfinished and unrelated story he had developed some time ago. He initially connected the ideas and themes with the short film, but he didn't think the idea would be too popular. But with the newly founded popularity, Parsons reconsidered the story idea and would finalize and integrate the story in January of that year.[5]
The Oldest View
The Oldest View is a thriller web series, starting on March 18, 2023. The First Section revolves around a content creator, Wyatt, discovering a staircase leading into a underground mall.
Prior to production, Parsons encountered an image of one of the rolling giants, based on Julien Reverchon, and saved it to his computer in Winter of 2021. When he rediscovered the photo in December of 2022, he would search for its origins. During new years eve, Parsons shared his findings with his friends. On January through March of 2023, they would search and collect media of the rolling giant. Parsons would consider adding the rolling giant to the Backrooms web series, but he would find it limiting and not fitting. In March, Parsons would have a clear idea what The Oldest View would be. He would work on "Renewal" and publish it on March 18, 2023.[6]
People Still Live Here
People Still Live Here is a digital horror web series, starting on January 13, 2025. It revolves around a video game retelling the events experienced and documented by Clifton J. Saywell between 1934 and 1946 in the dimension called 'The Meadow'.
The 1st work relating to People Still Live Here was an album, with the same name, released on June 13, 2023, on Youtube. He would start working on "SAYWELL" in 2024 and later publish it on January 13, 2025 on Youtube.
Corpus Schizophrenic - A Portal 2 Short Film (2019)
Late for School (2019)
It's Nicer Here (2020)
Transmission Server (2022)
I Remember (2022)
Monkey Car Crash Go Boom (One day film challenge) (2023)
Discography
Albums
Awake (2020)
Backrooms (Original Score), Vol. 1 (2022)
Backrooms (Original Score), Vol. 2 (2023)
The Oldest View (Original Score), Vol. 3 (2023)
Daemon (2023)
It's All Happening (2023)
Highway 101 (2024)
Out of Sync (Side 1) (2024)
Out of Sync (Side 2) (2024)
Backrooms (Original Score), Vol. 3 (2024)
Daemon (Vol. 2) (2024)
I Can't Wait to Use the Internet (2025)
Singles
Everything (2021)
Halogen (2022)
Sailing (2023)
DS Lite (2024)
Glory to Lockheed Martin (2024)
The Hacker Known as 4Chan (2024)
I Love My Job (2024)
Privacy Commodity (2025)
Notes
↑ Although he currently resides in Northern California, Parsons has previously mentioned in a YouTube live Q&A that he is British-born. Friends of him have mentioned that he was raised in the United Kingdom before relocating to the United States.
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