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Obex director Albert Briney and producer Pete Ohs will participate in a Q&A following the 7:10 p.m. show on Saturday, Jan 17 and after the 4:00 p.m. show on Sunday, Jan. 18 at the Noho 7. Michael Strassner (The Baltimorons) will moderate the Saturday night Q&A.
Obex
A miniature epic of melancholic whimsy endearingly conceived in black-and-white with a lo-fi aesthetic.
Obex
In pre-internet 1987, Conor 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, he 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.
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.
Genre
Sci-Fi,
Horror
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Runtime
90
Language
English
Director
Albert Briney
Producer
James Belfor,
Albert Briney,
Emma Hannaway,
Pete Ohs
Writer(s)
Albert Briney,
Pete Ohs
Cast
Albert Birney,
Callie Hernandez,
Frank Mosley