Thursday, January 15, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Brain Dead Studios, Los Angeles
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 begins to blur. 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.