Mez Breeze

Mez Breeze This essay was peer-reviewed. Experimental storyteller and digital artist Mez Breeze explores the liminal spaces of The Backrooms, a found footage web series which is based on a popular creepypasta of the same name. In doing so, Breeze confronts the feelings of alienation and predation inherent to late-stage capitalist society. Introduction The Backrooms is a viral found footage series created by Kane Parsons, a Youtuber-turned-traditional-filmmaker.

By Mez Breeze, Simon Groth and Kent MacCarter | 18 February 2020 Is there a more loaded word than PROPAGANDA? It’s the tool of choice for authoritarians everywhere, an opiate for the masses, filled with manipulation, misrepresentation and outright lies with half an eye to creating convenient divisions and discord. The etymology of the word, though, is something more neutral: a modern twist on Latin that indicates material intended to be published or propagated.

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