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.
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OBEX | February 28 | Hopscotch | 8PM
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Tickets for the 8PM screening of OBEX
2025 • USA • 90 minutes • dir. Albert Birney
Saturday, February 28th
at Hopscotch Coffee + Kitchen (235 W Dodds)
$8 dollars | All Ages
Showtime: 8pm
Synopsis: 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.
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