Canadian premiere of "8 BIT": SAT, Montreal

Montreal: view from our window

Last Saturday La Société des arts technologiques hosted the Canadian premiere of 8 BIT. It was a formidable event on a very cold, snowy evening.
We were written up by several Montreal daily/weekly newspapers:
http://www.hour.ca/
http://www.montrealmirror.com
http://www.lapresseaffaires.com/
and featured in La Revanche des Nerdz, on Ztélé


the screening was happening on 4 screens at the same time, which was a little schizophrenic but cool..

The screening was organized by Cindy Poremba, Heather Kelly and Montreal GameCODE project. Thank you all so much!

Heather Kelly, Marcin Ramocki, Justin Strawhand and Cindy Poremba

We had around 200 enthusiastic viewers, the after-party included some awesome Nanoloop tracks by Taxi Nouveau (gameboy advance has a better base than I expected), circuit music by Jamie Allen (NYC) and Montreal's underground techno-turntablist Tobias.dj + VJ collectives thisisnotdesign.com and futildesign.com. The energy was great, and the audience came up with some serious questions: the Q&A was over 30 minutes long (which is an absolute record, usually they just want to run and stick their heads into cold water;).

Q＆A

I even introduced the movie in broken French and seemed to be understood (or maybe they were just nice).

One way or another, the road-trip to Montreal turned out to be a sweet vacation, the city is definitely worth visiting (I do suggest summer though).


Taxi-Noveau
Jamie Allen & Tobias