8-Bit: The Documentary + Trailer
On October 7th, the Museum of Modern Art, in NYC, held a screening of 8 BIT, a documentary covering art and video games. For those of you who missed it, there will be another screening, tomorrow, on October 11, 2006 at 8:30pm, EST. Hopefully, there will be more screenings in the future or a general release on DVD, soon. You all might remember Toots giving us all a heads up in a previous post. By the way, I received I Am 8Bit as one of my birthday presents and I must say, it is FTW, but I am pretty sure the two are unrelated.
Here’s a bit of what you can expect with a trailer following that:
8 BIT is a hybrid documentary examining the influence of video games on contemporary culture…
A mélange of a rocumentary, art expose and a culture-critical investigation, 8 BIT ties together seemingly disconnected phenomena like the 80’s demo scene, chiptune music and contemporary artists using machinima and modified games…
Produced in NYC, LA, Paris and Tokyo, 8 BIT brings a global perspective on the new artistic approaches of the DIY generation which grew up playing Atari and Commodore 64…
8 BIT insists that in the 21st century Game-Boy rock, machinima and game theory belong together and share a common root: the digital heritage of Generation X.
Official 8BIT Movie Site [8Bit Movie]
Super Timsy
Posted to Video Games, Videos on 10 October 2006
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