You can haz cat videos

An Internet cat video festival comes to town.

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From Grumpy Cat to Lil Bub, Henri Le Chat Noir to Nyan Cat, one thing is clear: The kittehs are officially killing it on the Internet. Our feline friends may not give a damn about us, but we humans are certainly obsessed with them—and when it comes to the fractious mess of clickbait and comment thread battles known as the World Wide Web, cat videos are the great equalizer.

So it’s no surprise that there is now an entire festival dedicated to this genre of cinema. On Halloween eve, cat lovers can sit back and watch 70 straight minutes of kitty-centric YouTube videos, Vines and short films at the 2014 Internet Cat Video Festival, a feline film fest curated by Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center, now in its second year. Billed as the “first offline celebration of online cat videos,” the festival inspired last year’s Copy Cat film fest in Somerville and features an all-star cast of cats. To see them on the big screen, prowl on down to the Berklee Performance Center on Oct. 30.

The 2014 Internet Cat Video Festival screens on Oct. 30 at 6:30 and 9 pm at the Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave., Boston. $12. berklee.edu

 

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