When your film is without official distribution, yet you continue to have screenings, it’s worth your while to make distinctly new trailers that advertise specific shows. This is apparently what the makers of Nerdcore Rising have done. The above promo was posted to YouTube this week in order to announce the music doc’s west coast premiere, happening this Saturday, August 30th, at the 2008 Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle.
Nerdcore Rising is one of the most entertaining films I saw at SXSW this year; in my review, I particularly applauded the attention paid to the hilarious fanbase of nerdcore hip-hop. Both the music genre and the documentary are as much about the fans as they are about the artists, which include nerdcore “godfather” MC Frontalot (seen in the promo with Nerdcore director Negin Farsad).
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.
Harmony Korine, stand-up comedian
REVIEWS
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At the Death House Door
Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
It’s fitting that the last film I saw at SXSW was Nerdcore Rising. I’d begun my experience of this year’s festival with a screener of We Are Wizards (review here), a documentary that mostly focuses on the Harry Potter-based “wizard rock”, which I’d then assumed was the nerdiest music genre in existence. And now I’d finished my experience with this doc, which is actually about the nerdiest music genre in existence, “nerdcore hip hop”.
The proof is not in the artists, though. It’s in the fans, which director Negin Farsad is right to concentrate on and showcase so significantly here. The film may center on one specific nerdcore hip hop artist, MC Frontalot, and his band’s first tour, but Nerdcore Rising is really, ultimately, about the freaks and geeks who make up the audience at each show along the way. Not since the height of the ska scene ten years ago has there been a genre so well defined by the character of its fanbase.
Kevin Buist
FLAME + CITRON Review
Christopher Campbell
Happy Halloween Links. Today in Film...
Brandon Harris
5 80s Literary Adaptations Worse Than...
Kevin Kelly
John Krasinski, Brief Interviews With...
Karina Longworth
SpoutBlog, Now Available in Book Form
Paul Moore
October 31, Karina’s Last Day
Lauren Wissot
Sasha Grey Interview
We’ve had a bit of trouble getting this episode to go through the iTunes feed, so we hope this re-post will fix the problem. The original post, with episode description and embedded player, is here.
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