FANTASTIC FEST 2024: Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape (2023)

Kati Kelli was a YouTube personality as the form moved from people just posting anything to today’s world of content providers. In this collection of her movies, made by Jane Schoenbrun (We’re All Going to the World’s Fair) and husband Jordan Whipple, we see the many faces that she put on online before dying in 2019 from a severe asthma attack.

You can see the original videos on her channel, Girl Internet Show, or watch this movie to see Kelli direct, write, edit and star in a series of films where her only other co-stars are animations. The last movie in this, Total Body Removal Surgery, was posted three days before her death.

In 79 minutes, we see where the internet was and where it was going, this film has so explorations by its star of beauty, image and online and offline personality. The internet has changed so much in the years since Kelli’s death but from this film, you get the idea that she would have transformed beyond it and led it somewhere.