BLIP FESTIVAL: REFORMAT THE PLANET trailer from 2 Player Productions on Vimeo.
In his first feature doc, Paul Owens looks into the ChipTunes, a new underground electronic music genre consisting of music made on out-of-date video game hardware. Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet, screening on the 24 Beats Per Minute program, premieres on Saturday night at the Dobie. The trailer’s above, and Paul Owens answers our questions below.
Tell us about your movie. Who did you work with, why did you make it? Give us the reductive, 25-word or less, “It’s like [pop culture reference a] meets [pop culture reference b]!” pitch, then explain what the quick and dirty sell leaves out.
Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet delves into this music movement known as ChipTunes, which is based around using forgotten videogame hardware (nintendo, atari, gameboy) to create new, original music.
I made the movie with Asif Siddiky, who did the cinematography, and Paul Levering, who was the producer. In the beginning, we checked out a live chiptune show and we were all blown away. We’d never seen or heard anything like it, but because it was sort of anchored to this classic videogame sound, it instantly struck a chord with us. Slowly we accumulated live footage, interviews, important moments in the scene and two years later, we had a documentary.
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