OBEX

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OBEX

2025

1h 30m

Sci-Fi

Fantasy

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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.

Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Though OBEX, too, is a fantasy, it’s also a work of meticulous realism -- but the realities that it dramatizes are so unusual and so finely observed that they outshine the imaginative speculations to which they give rise.

Feb 11, 2025

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Carlos Aguilar

Variety

A miniature epic of melancholic whimsy endearingly conceived in black-and-white with a lo-fi aesthetic.

Jan 31, 2025

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Ryan Lattanzio

IndieWire

A warm yearn for simpler times, told by a distinctive cinematic voice.

Rated: B+

Jan 31, 2025

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Christopher Llewellyn Reed

Film Festival Today

The result is a testament to the power of independent filmmaking, as well as a loving tribute to 1980s technology.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 5, 2025

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Dillon Gonzales

Geek Vibes Nation

There are movies with bigger budgets that have more realistic outfits and monsters, but very few of those capture the joy that comes from watching something that feels like it was made by a group of friends who have not lost touch with their imagination.

Rated: 7/10

Aug 24, 2025

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Timothy Lee

Geeks of Color

It takes aspects of its inspirations and melds them into a movie so creatively striking and distinctive that it is visually unlike most, if not any, movies I’ve seen this year.

Rated: 7/10

Aug 22, 2025

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

10/02/25

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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.

Director: Albert Birney
Producer: Emma Hannaway, Pete Ohs, James Belfer, Albert Birney
Screenwriter: Albert Birney, Pete Ohs
Production Co: Cartuna, True Friend
Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 30m