Our lives are a perpetual cycle of birth and death. Like the circle of the seasons every night our old selves die and the next day a new self is reborn. Obselidia is about that cycle and how we give meaning to the things that came before.  

The movie follows George, a Librarian consumed with cataloging things that have become obsolete. He meets Sophie, a floaty cinema projectionist working at a silent movie theater in LA. They travel out to Death Valley to meet with a scientist predicting the end of the world.  

Over the course of their journey both George and Sophie realize something. He’s been stuck in the past and she’s been running from it. They’ve been missing out on what’s most important – the present moment.

“Gentle, intelligent, gorgeously made and utterly eccentric, ‘Obselidia’ exists in its own little world entirely apart from any hitherto detected categories of American independent filmmaking.”

— Todd McCarthy, Variety Magazine, Jan 31, 2010