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Blip Festival 2008: The Promo from Richard Alexander Caraballo on Vimeo. Jenn de la Vega from The Blip Festival sent me an email today asking if I would mind mentioning the bit-crushed bleep fest returning to Brooklyn later this year. I love this stuff and will be in NY this December so I will be there with my Joystick.

Filed under: Culture, Hacks, Portable, Retro, Video One of the most surprising films in the sort of "Holy crap? What the heck?! This is cool!" vein to come out of SXSW film festival earlier this year was Blip Festival: Reformat The Planet. It's all about chiptune music and the performers, and is beautifully shot.

2008 has been a good year for dorkumentaries. Along with the dvd release of King of Kong, we’ve also seen the premiere of not one, but two docs about nerdcore hip hop (Nerdcore for Life & Nerdcore Rising).

I think it is highly, if not completely important that you head over to THIS LINK HERE to view the chiptune music documentary, REFORMAT THE PLANET in it's entirety. BUT ONLY FOR ONE WEEK! This is both an awesome viewing for those who love chiptunes as well as those who are completely new to the very idea of music playing Gameboys and circuit bending.

Here is a master guide to all of our reviews, interviews and assorted other coverage from the 2008 SXSW Film Festival. You can also revisit all of our SXSW previews here. MISCELLANEOUS Michael Tully compares/contrasts SXSW 2007 to SXSW 2008 Paul meets Vanessa Hudgens and other absurd teenage celebrities on the 21 red carpet.

SXSW 2008: Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet March 17, 2008 – 10:20 am From the powerful opening notes of Reformat the Planet, the doc hooks you to your seat with curiosity. A series of catchy tunes made on old school video gaming devices, hacked and manipulated to their furthest

Filed under: Documentary, Music & Musicals, SXSW, Theatrical Reviews I have no idea why the word "documentary" has somehow been connected with the word "boring" over the past several decades, but I see lots of VERY entertaining docos as part of my festival exploits.

SXSW 2008: Nerdcore Rising Chris reviews another nerdy, NERDCORE RISING, film showing at SXSW. Fortunately, it's a lot better than "21". March 12, 2008 – 4:00 pm It’s fitting that the last film I saw at SXSW was Nerdcore Rising.