found footage from the Backrooms

WashYourHands

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Liminality is a strange realm. Ephemeral, gradations, temporality, all the Turner and Van Gennep material holds but it def has aged too. Rites of passage? Where are they now? Psychological geography, place from space, the uncanny. Broad in scope, applied it to the built environment you can push it back to Neolithic Turkey’s famous sites
 
WashYourHands

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Buying heroin in the late 80’s and early 90’s took you into interiors touched on up thread. I don’t have imagery from the inside of demolished council flat blocks but chucked a few old haunts up in Grim Britannia thread. Returning to high doses of opiates in a controlled medical context recently brought a lot of memories back, yet the uncanny has been removed because a devouring hunger to cocoon is no longer in the equation
 
WashYourHands

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Nah it’s not that reductive, Tea. Imagine living in a certain headspace for years and then revisiting safely. The familiar and the new. If you haven’t been in extremely threatening built environments where your life is on the line day in day out, where your pulse is 133 from scoring adrenaline, then you won’t be able to empathise and I know you indulge in poppy tea

Thread seems to tap into that but as an internet (slender man)/gaming “off map” meta/micro analysis of the meaning of liminal. Humans have a very old relationship with this concept. How can you ignore it?
 
WashYourHands

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Liminal as in betwixt and between - from the spatially uncanny like a souterrain, to a free party site over a weekend, to where an adolescent becomes an ‘adult’ through a specific rite (think confirmation in Christianity), to Third on the middle class

Corridors of the unknown offer immediate archaic reptile brain‘s mapping capacity underpinning the primate, so even with sensory deprivation like poor lighting your central nervous system focuses and your amygdala boots up rapid. Stratigraphy of human buildings, as in catacombs, cellars, hidden tunnels, transgressive journeys

At a guess
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
WashYourHands said:
Nah it’s not that reductive, Tea. Imagine living in a certain headspace for years and then revisiting safely. The familiar and the new. If you haven’t been in extremely threatening built environments where your life is on the line day in day out, where your pulse is 133 from scoring adrenaline, then you won’t be able to empathise and I know you indulge in poppy tea

Thread seems to tap into that but as an internet (slender man)/gaming “off map” meta/micro analysis of the meaning of liminal. Humans have a very old relationship with this concept. How can you ignore it?
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Sorry, previous post sounded pisstakey. I appreciate that you can't help but be taken back to that earlier phase of your life by your present situation.

Speaking of which, I hope your treatment is going well and that you're on the mend soon.
 
mvuent

mvuent

Void Dweller


this one uses some music i once unsuccessfully tried to foist on yyaldrin in the "listen to something now" thread
 
mvuent

mvuent

Void Dweller
i guess what made me want to start a new thread for this stuff, as opposed to just continue one of the other discussions we've had about liminality and the uncanny, was the following:

1) how good gen z is at video editing/production. sure there are plenty of backrooms vids that are obviously just some teen wandering around an underground parking lot mumbling "what. the. fuck..." or too obviously made with unreal engine/blender or whatever. but considering how this is all basically just a meme, the level of immersiveness in so many of these videos is really high, especially considering how awful a lot of special effects in actual big budget studio films made by adults still regularly are. the consequence of this skill is that memes are becoming increasingly real.

2) this idea of an internet mythology, a pantheon of folk characters and settings. the question of how do you elaborate on it without ruining it. in this regard i dunno that all this was a success. predictably the earlier efforts seem more soulful, then the discipline/commitment to an aesthetic erodes and you increasingly just have people lazily slapping stuff in -- "hey its me petah griffin lois i'm in da backrooms" etc.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
I'm celebrating Her Maj's plutonium jubilee by sorting out a bunch of stuff we've had in a storage facility for far too long. Strong Backrooms vibe to these places. Bit Kubrickian, too.

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mvuent

mvuent

Void Dweller
for me like 70% of the appeal of old buildings is exactly that. sure the architecture can be nice but it's mostly the dream of stumbling on some hidden room that's sat untouched for decades.
 
C

catalog

Well-known member
mvuent said:
for me like 70% of the appeal of old buildings is exactly that. sure the architecture can be nice but it's mostly the dream of stumbling on some hidden room that's sat untouched for decades.
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u might be interested in this classic sinclair book https://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/may/22/books.guardianreview9 about a room discovered after a decade untouched

One day in 1980, a room in the East End of London was unlocked for the first time in 11 years. Inside, everything was just as its occupant had left it. A half-finished cup of tea stood next to the unmade bed. A pot of porridge was still on the stove. One witness claimed to have been able to make out the imprint of a head on the pillow.
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