Albert Birney’s OBEX is a dark, twisted, and nonsensical fantasy about a man who gets sucked into a video game and forced to fend for his life while trying to recover his most trusted companion; a ...

“There it is,” says Computer Conor, finding the advert for his modest computer-art service in the latest issue of Personal Computing while his dog, Sandy, snuffles on the sofa. Though the aesthetic of ...

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Albert Birney’s endearingly crafted, black-and-white idiosyncratic vision of a life consumed by media dabbles in darkness while on a quest to its life-affirming intent. This ingenious fantasy about ...

This review is based on a screening at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Movies about people getting sucked into video games have been around nearly as long as video games themselves, but none have had ...

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Albert Birney, Writer/Director of 2025 Sundance breakout Obex, is one of the coolest people I’ve ever talked to. That might have something to do with Obex feeling tailor-made just for me—the kind of ...

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to “Obex” following its debut at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The surreal, black-and-white fantasy film was directed by Albert ...

If you’re a computer-age citizen who’s old enough to remember those benchmarks of pre-internet adjustment, when personal computing went from toy hobby to addictive portal to worrisomely ubiquitous ...

One of the most original, quirky and transfixing films in recent memory was OBEX, a surreal sci-fi fantasy written, directed and starring Albert Birney and released via Oscilloscope, the indie film ...

In this indie oddity boasting visceral D.I.Y. effects, a gentle loner enters the world of a video game to save his beloved dog. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Director and star Albert Birney goes through the looking glass to tackle a Zelda-esque dog rescue quest inside his 80s gaming machine in endearingly imaginative fantasy If David Lynch had been born 20 ...