Director and star Albert Birney goes through the looking glass to tackle a Zelda-esque dog rescue quest inside his 80s gaming machine in endearingly imaginative fantasy
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: black-and-white analogue surrealism, with smudges of dot-matrix horror. Director Albert Birney stars as “Computer Conor”, a shut-in who makes a living from virtuosically tapping out Ascii reproductions of people’s favourite photos and, on his downtime, watching several VHSs simultaneously on his three-television-high stack.
Outside is Mary (Callie Hernandez), an unseen grocery-delivery girl, and the unsettling writhings of the biological…
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