By Steven Gottlieb on March 9, 2006 @ 2:20pm PST |
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Those who prefer their music on-screen, as opposed to on-stage, will still find plenty of options when the film component of SXSW launches on March 10. In addition to video screenings, many music video directors and music-themed films are on the schedule. Highlights include:
Director Zach Merck's documentary Punk Like Me about a writer/family man who forms the punk rock mariachi band Carne Asada specifically to go on the Warped Tour and lives his dream
- Awesome: I Fuckin' Shot That capturres a Beastie Boys concert at Madison Square Garden in footage shot by actual audience members.
- loudQUIETloud documents the triumphant reunion of the Pixies. It was directed by Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin
- Director JL Aronson's Danielson: A Family Movie provides a look at the utterly unique and bizarre indie act The Danielson Family.
- Video director Risa Machuca — best known as a second unit director and collaborator for Chris Robinson — will be showing Shortstop, a film she co-directed with Fanny Veliz
- Directing team Terri Timely will represent with the short film A Persistant Vision
- Arno Salters unveils the animated short Playtime, which is basically a music video for the electronic group General Electrics
SXSW's music video showcase will boast clips from Laura Veirs, Plastalina Mosh, The Willowz, Sleater-Kinney and many other acts.
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