Jane Schoenbrun‘s feature film debut We’re All Going To The World’s Fair made a big splash on the festival circuit last year. Their stunning look into isolation and seeking connection speaks to how we use the internet today. Plus, the film addresses the role of digital legendry in real life. And finally, We’re All Going To The World’s Fair is going to be available to the rest of the world.
On April 15, the film comes to BAM and Quad Cinema in New York. Then, it expands to theaters nationwide and digital on April 22. We couldn’t be more excited!
Late on a cold night somewhere in the U.S., teenage Casey sits alone in her attic bedroom, scrolling the internet under the glow-in-the-dark stars and black-light posters that blanket the ceiling. She has finally decided to take the World’s Fair Challenge, an online role-playing horror game, and embrace the uncertainty it promises. After the initiation, she documents the changes that may or may not be happening to her, adding her experiences to the shuffle of online clips available for the world to see. As she begins to lose herself between dream and reality, a mysterious figure reaches out, claiming to see something special in her uploads.
In his review out of Fantasia 2021, Chad Collins said of the film:
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is poised, I suspect, to be this generation’s The Blair Witch Project. It’s an enigmatic, elegiac, enthralling slice of horror hybrid cinema. It haunts at the margins of the forgotten and the ignored. Quasi-supernatural, its delicately doled out terrors manifest slowly yet assuredly afterward.
Schoenbrun wrote, directed and edited We’re All Going To The World’s Fair. Anna Cobb stars as Casey in her feature film debut. Michael J. Rogers also stars.