Obex
Date and Time
Wednesday, January 28 2026
7:00pm
doors at 6:30
7:00pm
doors at 6:30
Tickets
$10 General
$7 for SPACE Members
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IRL Box Office at 534 Congress St. | Cash only. No fees.
Fridays 12-6 pm and Saturdays 12-4 pm
$7 for SPACE Members
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IRL Box Office at 534 Congress St. | Cash only. No fees.
Fridays 12-6 pm and Saturdays 12-4 pm
dir. Albert Birney
90 min.
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.
