Filed under: Documentaries, SXSW Film Festival, Cinematical
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“Feminism! Lesbians! Vaginas!” That’s the battle cry that proudly progressive electroclash trio Le Tigre chanted backstage to get themselves pumped up for their final show back in 2005. Captured towards the end of Kerthy Fix’s doc, ‘Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour,’](Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour (2010) - IMDb) it’s one of the sweet, invigorating, and hyper-ecstatic moments that make 24 Beats Per Second the most reliably rocking sidebar at SXSW. For a huge music fan who simply doesn’t have a moment to spare from the film portion of the conference, this series of music documentaries is the next best thing on offer-- and this year that offer wound up being pretty damn good, serving up trills and triumphs in equal measure. But of the films that I was able to catch amidst the madness, it was the most reserved and humble among them that struck the deepest chord (pun!)