Premiere Run!

Friday, January 16 – Sunday, January 18

In pre-internet 1987, Conor (Birney) and his dog Sandy live a life of seclusion, lost in the slow-rendering graphics of early Macs and televisions aglow with late night horror movie marathons. But, when he begins playing OBEX, a new and mysterious, state-of-the-art computer game, Conor finds himself trapped in a low-tech, but high-stakes, analog hellscape as the line between reality and game blurs.

Audacious and uncanny, writer-director Albert Birney’s OBEX is a delightfully skewed lo-fi fantasy. Shot in striking black and white, this surreally nostalgic nightmare revisits the dawn of personal computing to reflect on the loneliness of our always-online present day. – Oscilloscope Films

“‘Eraserhead’ Meets ‘The Legend of Zelda’ in a Black-and-White, Cicada-Plagued Sci-Fi Trip” – IndieWire

“A work of meticulous realism” – The New Yorker

“(An) ingenious fantasy… feels opportune for the modern era.” – Variety