The Grand Illusion

This feature-length “mixtape” unearths and reintroduces a stunning, singular body of work by the enigmatic Kati Kelli, an outsider video artist and digital native whose subversive online uploads push at the seams of the digital form. Curated by Jane Schoenbrun (writer/director of WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR and I SAW THE TV GLOW) and Kati's widower, Jordan Wippell.

For nearly a decade before her passing in 2019, Kati ran “Girl Internet Show,” a YouTube channel, parasocial experiment, and epically deranged one-woman universe built from scratch in her bedroom. This presentation features a lovingly curated selection of Kati’s online work, unreleased videos, and her first (and final) short film opus, "Total Body Removal Surgery".

“…a surreal, fun, and disorienting 79 minutes.” Siddhant Adlakha, Mashable

“…some of this decade’s funniest, most cutting, and truly most bizarre works of art.” GQ Magazine

“…one of the strangest, funniest, and [most] heartbreaking viewing experiences I have ever had… practically perfect in every way.” Tori Potenza, Movie Jawn