We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

This October, the Roxy presents four unforgettable visions, where the computer screen is a flimsy boundary between the "real world" and a dimension of pure terror.

Log Off: Ghosts in the Machine

October 7: We're All Going to the World's Fair (Jane Schoenbrun, 2022) October 14: Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
October 21: Red Rooms (Pascal Plante, 2023)
October 28: Existenz (David Cronenberg, 1999)

We're All Going to the World's Fair: Late on a cold night somewhere in the U.S., teenage Casey (Anna Cobb in her feature debut) 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.