We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

“I want to go to the World’s Fair.” Say it three times into your computer camera. Prick your finger, draw some blood and smear it on the screen. Now press play on the video. They say that once you’ve seen it, the changes begin… In a small town, a shy and isolated teenage girl becomes immersed in an online role-playing game. A film about fantasy and intimacy and identity play in the digital realm. It takes inspiration as much from traditional narrative form as it does from the scroll of a newsfeed, and it tries to speak authentically in the language of the internet. It works from the thesis of Poe’s Law, an adage that posits that it is impossible to know if someone is telling the truth or trolling you online, as well as an attempt to use the language of cinema to articulate the hard-to-describe feeling of gender dysphoria.