Built with Unity during the Covid 19 pandemic, Sarah Lasley’s Welcome to the Enclave (2023) follows two sisters as they try to save their home for “like-minded women,” The Enclave, from bankruptcy. Turning to popular, yet often problematic, platforms for crowdfunding, internet trolls reshape the domestic landscape reflecting the delusion of the space.

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Digital America interviewed Sarah Lasley in November of 2024.

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Sarah Lasley is an award-winning filmmaker from Louisville, Kentucky and an Assistant Professor of Film at Cal Poly Humboldt. Her no-crew, no-budget experimental films critique our current moment with absurdist humor. She has screened internationally at festivals, museums, and galleries such as Slamdance, Ann Arbor, Athens International Video and Film Festival, Cairo Video Festival, Nitehawk Cinemas, Katonah Museum of Art, and the Wrong Bienniale. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Art, a BFA from University of Louisville, and was a resident of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2004.