The cover of ZEN AND SLOW GAMES is from Tux and Fanny, the game version of Albert Birney's brilliant animated movies, and one of my favourite recent reflective games. store.steampowered.com/app/2094730/... www.gog.com/en/game/tux_... www.nintendo.com/en_CA/games/...

#18 OBEX The Video Game One of my favorite films of last year is getting a wide release and the director prepped a HARD video game tie in to promote the film. It fun despite the rage.

full game walkthrough: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dKT...

Opening today at The Frida! 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/obex/

Can you defeat Ixaroth and save Sandy? albertbirney.itch.io/obex

Utterly enraptured by Albert Birney’s OBEX, from its hypnotic sound design to how it reminds us abt the beautiful inconvenience of community, even while it's sympathetic to our digital plight to escape our embodied hells. 2026 is off to a great start. Review for @ebertvoices.bsky.social:

Albert Birney’s latest film, ‘Obex,’ is full of dated tech: old keyboards, clicky TVs, and ASCII art. You may be surprised to find yourself missing the days of tearing the sides off computer paper after you’ve printed something.

still playing at IFC!

'Obex' boots up an early moment of computer escapism with nightmarish panache

SUPPORT INDEPENDENT CINEMA! is a really rallying cry for us at Feeling Seen, and OBEX is as indie as things get. Saw it at last years Sundance and finally got to chat with Albert Birney about his inspirations and to my great delight: Marcel the Shell!!

cc: @newnextfilmfest.bsky.social @albertbirney.bsky.social

✨ 2 More Films Appear! ✨ Our opening night selection is DUST BUNNY! A dark + thrilling fairytale adventure, and first feature film from Bryan Fuller. And OBEX, a lo-fi fantasy RPG by Anomaly alum Albert Birney. Soon all shall be revealed... ➡️ www.anomalyfilmfest.com/2more2025

Tux and Fanny - Episode 161 "A Deep Sea Discovery" www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBYZ...

“Fireflies Along the Fence” Short film by @albertbirney.bsky.social inspired by track 10 on Landscapes, the new album from Birney-Willen (a.k.a. filmmaker Albert Birney and artist/designer Bruce Willen). www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5NT...

My new collab album with @albertbirney.bsky.social is out now. And it's #bandcampfriday 👀👀👀

For @bmoreart.bsky.social: A preview of the New/Next Film Festival @newnextfilmfest.bsky.social which begins tomorrow night and reviewed some must-see movies, including @albertbirney.bsky.social's touching/disturbing "Obex" and crypto caper comedy "$POSITIONS" bmoreart.com/2025/10/new-...

Landscapes is out today! Listen while looking out the window of a moving train, on a long walk around the neighborhood, on the porch as a storm rolls in, at home with eyes closed. 👇 CASSETTE / DIGITAL / STREAMING 👇 birney-willen.bandcamp.com/album/landsc...

I recently browsed my favorite video store @beyondvideo.bsky.social and picked some movies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxmf...

My new collab album with @albertbirney.bsky.social comes out Friday. Find it wherever you listen to digital or on cassette. 👀 birney-willen.bandcamp.com/album/landsc... 👀

Hi friends! Albert and I made a slow video for “Casting Off (First Light on the Pier)” from the upcoming Birney-Willen album Landscapes. Video by @albertbirney.bsky.social, filmed by Bruce Willen with additional archival footage courtesy the Internet Archive www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT2r...

🚨OPENING NIGHT REVEAL: The BMore premiere of Albert Birney’s OBEX! 🚨 Join us at The Charles the evening of Thursday, October 2nd for this homegrown DIY wonder that premiered at Sundance. Tix: app.tickethive.com/e/2025-new-n... cc: @albertbirney.bsky.social

Strawberry Mansion has over 500 fans on Letterboxd - wow that’s cool, but no way we deserve more fans than The Cable Guy.

One of my faves from @fantasiafestival.com keep your eyes on Dorothy. She’s a star!

“Conor isn’t really equipped to be a hero and saviour, but his strength comes from the absolute belief that he has to care for his canine partner.” www.thecurb.com.au/obex-review-...

MJ's @drhbus.bsky.social says, "OBEX is at times unsettling, at times thrilling, but always fascinating and made with a deliberateness that's extremely confident and self-assured." #Obex recently played @fantasiafestival.com.

After some more time with Tux and Fanny this morning-- This game is amazing. Such a sense of wonder and discovery, with absurd humor and the occasional deep thoughts This absolutely deserves to be in your library store.steampowered.com/app/2094730/...

Tux and Fanny is so good after playing a bit of it this morning. You have no way of predicting what's coming next, but it's very likely to be hilarious store.steampowered.com/app/2094730/...

Giles Edwards (@gilesforyou.bsky.social) wraps up our coverage of Fantasia International Film Festival 2025 with this third omnibus of late-arriving odds and ends. Some good ones here, like @albertbirney.bsky.social's retro-futuristic "Obex" and the second instalment of the "Mononoke" anime trilogy.

OBEX at @fantasiafestival.com is a character study in the form of a horror/science fiction tale of a man trapped in a videogame www.unseenfilms.net/2025/07/obex...

OBEX played Fantasia: Albert Birney’s strange quest leads through a mix of lo-fi media, high fantasy, and surreal horror. A meditation on 8-bit nostalgia, and the competing importance of touching grass, it’s funny, sweet, and kind. It reminded me of I SAW THE TV GLOW. Plus there’s a cute dog!

here's the start of the third Tux and Fanny movie ⛵ youtu.be/A01JO8RmbtM?...

Surfing a calm wave in a sea of ants? Sounds fun. 🐜🐜🐜🏄‍♂️ Skin is made of numbers? 🔢🔢🧐🔢🔢 whoa

Tux and Fanny video game currently 50% on Steam !! store.steampowered.com/app/2094730/...

what’s your favorite film with fewer than 50k logs on Letterboxd? 👀 I’m going with @albertbirney.bsky.social and @kentuckeraudley.bsky.social’s STRAWBERRY MANSION. It’s rare to find a film that radiates as much creativity and positivity as this one does. Their first film, SYLVIO, is also a treat.

4 for ya boss

Tux and Fanny! Wild game, full of exploration and accessible puzzles, wrapped in a dizzying array of games within games and jokes within jokes in an explosion of creativity and joy. 52 steam reviews. store.steampowered.com/app/2094730/...

And next Wednesday at the Wrigleyville Drafthouse is SYLVIO! This is the most charming film about a gorilla finding small-town fame as a feature on community access TV. Directors @kentuckeraudley.bsky.social and @albertbirney.bsky.social did good work here. drafthouse.com/chicago/even...

two new reviews over at DoomRocket: Albert Birney's OBEX, easily my favorite film from this year's Chicago Critics Film Festival, and Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab's MR. K, two oddball films about finding strength through adversity that I recommend mightily doomrocket.substack.com/p/ccff-2025-...

new blog post about a handful of unique and underappreciated games you should try - Harold's Walk - Grey Area - Land of Artificial Jellies - Tux and Fanny - Deios I // Director's Cut - Tempus Bound rickyrickrick.neocities.org/gamer_palace... #indiegames #indiegame

OBEX playing soon in Chicago

2. Albert Birney's OBEX is such a potent, imaginative film about loneliness and isolation, and a beautifully rendered picture that continues to work and work upon you until it becomes lodged in your heart. musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

Lynch, Eggers, Cronenberg... 🎞️ Zero in on the connections between these iconic films and @sundance.org smash OBEX. A bizarre genre mix, this "ingenius" indie - scored by Josh Dibb of Animal Collective - is your next big film discovery 🔍 sff.org.au/program/event/obex/

Periodic reminder that I have the first two Tux and Fanny movies available on blu-ray, only available to buy here: tuxandfanny.bigcartel.com

One time, at the OIAF, I brought my friend to the wrong theater to watch Children of the Sea. Instead, we saw Tux and Fanny. BEST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE. This is just episode one. We watched all the eps together in one big feature length film. I think of it often and it warms my heart. #animation

i'm excited to share my movie with you.

This is an EASY recomend. If you have a pc, get it.

Tux and Fanny is currently half off on Steam 🕹️ for $4.99 you get 15-20+ hours of gameplay, tons of mini games, worlds inside of worlds, adventure, bird watching, a bookshelf with 40+ readable books, A FUN GAME store.steampowered.com/app/2094730/...

Made a new short film about an imaginary Sega CD game from 1992 called TANK FANTASY 🐟🐠 youtu.be/cz3QLcaBM5s?...

In January I started animating the latest Tux and Fanny movie “When We Become Wind” - I have 6 min finished & I’m really enjoying where it’s taking me. This time I won't release them as episodes along the way, but rather wait until it’s all finished to share as a complete movie 🟣🔴⛵️