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Welcome to the Enclave

Director: Sarah Lasley
Producer: Sarah Lasley
Premiere Status: US Premiere
Cast: Brenna Palughi
Release Year: 2023
Language: English (United States)
Subtitle: English (United States)
Country: United States
Genre: Animation, Female Director, Experimental, Art, New Media

Two Texas sisters fled to the metaverse at the onset of the pandemic, creating The Enclave, a cyber-haven for ‘like-minded women’. Years later, the suburb is on the verge of bankruptcy, and owner Moni Calvioni is crowdfunding to save her digital utopia. With no awareness of online culture, she and her sister Blair turn to Twitch and Reddit to pitch their idealized vision only to fall prey to a slew of internet trolls who write profanities on their street signs and graffiti their walls with sexual imagery. Helpless to the ensuing chaos, they’re forced to accept their fate - Blair with bedsheets covering the lewd insults and Moni with a swan song dance routine. The rapidly encroaching digital mountainscape only further unravels the delusion of The Enclave’s pursuit for the white, suburban ideal and exposes the baggage we bring to online spaces if we don't fix our very real IRL problems.