This strange type is thrown into analog technology
“There,” says Computer Conor. Personal computing While his dog, Sandy, inhales on the sofa. Despite aesthetic Obex-Following Albert Berney Pastel Strawberry (2021) – It is the beloved seventies ReaserHead Monochrome, manifestations can be deceptive. 1987, with Reagan at the White House and Madonna in the plans, but Connor (who Bernie himself) is unaware. He is a default closed, sees life through a screen, even sends his neighbor Mary to shop in the grocery.
Stirring through the magazine, which is an advertisement for a new computer game that attracts its attention; It is clear with a gothic castle, a demonic goat head and his human mind, promising an interactive games: “Can you reach the end of the maze and defeat the devil xaroth before eating your deadly soul?” To participate, every Conor should do it is a movie himself from different angles and filling a brief questionnaire: What is your name? Where do you live? Who are you? The latter is about to become very important when Connor sends $ 20 to the Concatix program in Pittsburgh, Obex makers.
Connor, 36 years old and a firm believer that “maybe one day we will all live in computers – even dogs”, during his time, at the forefront of new technology. His house is a shrine for him. It has three TVs, one on the other side, surrounded by shelves and shelves of VHS and Audiocassets. For relaxation, he sings a pop, like “cars”, Gary Numan, on his domestic manufactured karaoke preparation. Therefore, he is disappointed to find a flexible disk that contains “Obex” on his Apple-1 computer, that this “newer” invention is a clouds clums, which is mainly provided. And in the garbage he goes.
Or is it? Since eyes put the advertisement for “Obex”, Connor has been afflicted with strange dreams and sites. Cicada crawls to his printer, which sends strange instructions (“Removing your skin”) and a symbol of VHS with the phrase “I am from the inside”, which prompted Connor to go through his entire group (looking for what?). After viewing (and registration) A nightmare on Al Dardar StreetConnor goes to the bed. During his sleep, TVs explode in life and explode noisy – his enemy xaroth spit online. In the morning, Connor finds Sandy missing, so he is forced to go out to the real world, in the forest behind the garden gate.
This is the place where Bernie doubles on all the accumulated strangeness and what was, at first, the eccentric now, it has become completely hallucinating. Connor, who is now strongly bearded, has entered the world of “obex”, where he was guided by a parallel ethereal version Marie (who works in the gift store to sell elixrat and weapons), he must find its way through the dark forest, through the tops of the danger and the Orthopedic Valley, to the world The nightmare – from Xoroth, who took Sandy.
He plays like a weirdo VideodromeWith great gestures to the mysterious industrial shades of David Lynch Velvet blueAlthough Birney does not go into terror, science fiction, or even imagination, in this regard. Like a lot of type films for the first time in Sandans this year, Obex It is a strange blend of effects (Andrew Boujalski Computer chess It may be one comparison, Herk Harvey The carnival of souls Another), which would explain its transplantation in the package of the most vanguard next instead of midnight.
However, a lot of its wonderful creeping attractiveness dissipates, in the end of the excessive crowded, which does not really land, or even closing anything similar to the story. As in the most advanced roles play games, the best part is the journey, not the destination.
address: Obex
festival: Sandans (Next)
distributor: Magic photos
exit: Albert Bernie
Script book: Albert Bernie, a house
Empty: Albert Bernie, Kali Hernandez, Frank Musley
Running time: 90 minutes