Friday, January 9 at 7:30: Q&A with director Albert Birney moderated by Jane Schoenbrun after the show
Saturday, January 10 at 7:30: Q&A with director Albert Birney and DP Pete Ohs moderated by Graham Mason after the show
Sunday, January 11 at 2:50: Q&A with director Albert Birney and DP Pete Ohs moderated by Kelsey Lu after the show
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.
Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival
"ERASERHEAD meets 'The Legend of Zelda' in a black-and-white, cicada-plagued sci-fi trip." Ryan Lattanzio, Indiewire