Girl Internet Show
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live in a mansion, have fake L.A. friends, or lose weight fast, there’s at least like 80 videos online that can tell you. For some reason, Kati Kelli decided to make more, serving up girl internet life on Girl Internet Show, a YouTube show featuring content by influencers like Marva the Milf, Literally Jessica, and Kati Kelli herself. A film producer by trade and outsider artist in her bedroom, Kelli used her ace editing skills, wit, and gender expressions to make a corpus of little-known, internet-genre-bending work for almost a decade before she passed in 2019. Her videos featured in the underground web series The Eyeslicer, and are the subject of Jane Schoenbrun and Jordan Wippell’s work-in-progress compilation, Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape, first screened as part of the Photographing the Ether: The Internet on Film, 1983-2022 series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in April 2022. In their exhibition notes, Schoenbrun and Wippell describe Kelli’s work as “Equal parts Anna Biller, The Amanda Show, and Andy Kaufman, […] a testament to the expansive possibilities of the internet video as artistic medium, as well as a nuanced, intentionally slippery exploration of online identity, gender, and performance.”
Recos:
Fake LA Bitches
Flavor Your Breasts Easily
🔥New LA Apartment Tour🔥Kati Kelli
“WOW INVISIBLE MAKEUP!!!!!!”