Anna Cobb in "We're All Going to the World's Fair." Photo: Utopia. CHICAGO - Many directors have tried to grapple with the internet’s profound effect on humanity.
Few have succeeded like Jane Schoenbrun, a New York-based filmmaker whose new movie, "We’re All Going to the World’s Fair," feels the alienation of a life lived online deep within its bones.
Rarely does a film convey the internal lives of its characters as viscerally as "World’s Fair." Rarer still is a filmmaker who can accomplish this task with such clean, unadorned storytelling.
In this film, the space between pixels is both a warm blanket and a terrifying void.Newcomer Anna Cobb stars as Casey, a lonely teenager in an utterly generic suburb whose interest in horror leads her to join a creepypasta-esque online game called the World’s Fair Challenge.