Obex

Birney knows that fantasy is a potent force, that it can lead you deep into the worst parts of yourself, or, with the right influences, lead you back to life.

Its scrappy special effects make it a worthwhile midnight screening, but the core story lacks tenderness and overly relies on simplistic referencing.

It is sympathetic to the ways we’ll migrate to digital worlds to escape the hell of embodied living, but it sweetly and gently reminds us about the beautiful inconvenience of community.

It's easy to fall into the floppy-disk Oz of the charming lo-fi sci-fi OBEX.

...an earnest, strange, and delightful adventure.

If David Lynch had been born 20 years later and fetishised 1980s home-computing tech, this is the kind of film he might have made...