LOG ON. LOSE YOURSELF.

Late at night, teenage Casey (Anna Cobb) sits alone in her attic bedroom beneath glow-in-the-dark stars, scrolling the internet. She's decided to take the World’s Fair Challenge, an online role-playing horror game, documenting the changes that may or may not be happening to her in videos for the world to see. As reality and fantasy begin to blur, a mysterious older figure reaches out online, claiming to see something special in her uploads. A haunting, uncanny portrait of teenage loneliness and identity in the glow of a laptop screen.

Before "I Saw the TV Glow" and "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma", there was "We’re All Going to the World’s Fair". The narrative feature debut of Jane Schoenbrun, whose work has found a devoted following among Letterboxd members, is the first entry in their expanding "screen trilogy", which also includes the forthcoming novel "Public Access Afterworld". Premiering at Sundance in 2021, the film draws on the strange nostalgia of creepypasta, online role-playing games and the unsettling intimacy of growing up on the internet. Featuring a breakout performance from Anna Cobb and an atmospheric score by indie musician Alex G, Schoenbrun’s lo-fi exploration of identity, dysphoria and loneliness is, in the filmmaker’s own words, “not only about transition, but also the transience of the screen.” A film as much about the people we become online as the ones we struggle to be offline.

Languages: English. English subtitles available.