Please join us and spread the word - PXL THIS 31 Film Festival https://www.facebook.com/events/848200315947916/ starts screening on Youtube this Sunday Nov 14 at 7pm PDT Pacific time, simply enter the words "PXL THIS 31" in youtube. Join the chat. Thanks, Gerry Fialka
PXL THIS 31 Film Festival - Laughtears.com 2021 Program 0:00 PXL31 Primer - Gerry Fialka & Bruno Kohfield-Galeano 2:54 King Covid - King Kukulele (Denny Moynahan) 8:17 I Am Happy - J. Paulson 9:36 Illuminations - Francisco J. Ricardo 11:59 Please - Gerry Fialka 13:50 Broadcast - Val Paulson 15:39 The Dream of the Drowning Herds - John Cannizzaro 19:13 Musical Chairs - Suzy Williams & Brad Kay 22:35 The Cats of East Falls, Philadelphia - Joe Carlough 26:42 Ten Hats - Maya Johanna Galeano 28:22 Industrial Wig Miasma - Nile Southern 34:14 Open Mic - Bruno Kohfield-Galeano 37:55 Brave Combo Fun - Bart Weiss 42:19 Probe - John N. Campbell 51:20 New Old Man - Lee Paulson 52:10 Selfaware - Jet Star 56:58 Was or Is? - The Paulson Boys 59:05 Downer Canada - Environmental Dubs - Clint Enns 1:07:15 Headlines - Alex Soschin 1:10:05 Shame Blame - Penny Safraneck 1:12:08 A New Joey Icon For L.A. - Joe Nucci 1:14:45 No Room by SA Gerber 1:15:45 Denotations - Mark Loeser 1:21:12 Poem For A Map - Matt Collins 1:25;12 Duncan's Dream - Duncan Echelson 1:27:09 Crixit Concresion Roll Tiem - Patrick Gill 1:30:34 Brouhaha - S. Tarpey 1:32:25 Jabsurdism - Eli Elliott 1:33:40 Diff - Gerry Fialka 1:35:09 Blame it on a Virus - Nicole Galeano 1:36:46 Shitty Aliens - Daniel Florida (program subject to change, viewer discretion advised) Gerry Fialka 310-306-7330 [email protected] One of the oldest film festivals in LA premieres Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021 at 7pm PDT (PACIFIC TIME) on YouTube PXL THIS 31 Toy Camera Film Festival - online https://www.facebook.com/events/848200315947916/ Afterwards, ONE CAN VIEW IT ANYTIME on Youtube. The PXL-2000 (Pixelvision) is a toy camera, manufactured by Fisher-Price from 1987-89, that records on quarter-inch audio cassette tape. The low resolution and high contrast was made for kids, but became suitable for artists. Today Pixelators are merging Pixelvision with cell phones and live streaming. Electronic Folk Art . . . Lo-Fi Hi-Jinx ! The 31th annual toy camera film festival PXL THIS 31 features Pixelvision. PXL THIS celebrates visionary moving image artists from seminal experimental filmmakers to children to homeless to professionals. This year includes over two dozen entries from across the US and Canada. Special thanks to PXL THIS Film Festival co-director Bruno Kohfield-Galeano, whose 3-year-old daughter Maya contributes the funny short film Ten Hats. Also, join in our Zoom discussion on Sat, Nov 20, 2021 from 2 to 3:30pm PDT, rsvp [email protected] for link. PXL THIS 31 HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE (links to some screeners and some still images listed here): ***** Jay Paulson proves the family that PXLs together stays together. His I Am Happy celebrates joy with his sons, 10-year-old Val and 12-year old Lee. Val contributes BroadCast, and Lee - New Old Man. **** Clint Enns' Downer Canada - Environmental Dubs (8 min, 2021) A PXL2000 video with sound from Downer Canada's Environmental Dubs - “a domestic noir, filled with dread and portent. everything is too close, the world closing in, the boundaries collapsing cat cabin fever, cooped up, overheated, a world of close up and touch. haptic deliriums.” - Mike Hoolboom Video: https://vimeo.com/503884722 Stills: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1x_ctmDzE2iVDHQv1FgNDhgWFlMSyuwvb?usp=sharing **** Mark Loeser's Denotations (6 minutes, 1998) A set of Mitten's Analog Movie Titlers reach for the ineffable when they run out of suggested example phrases. Pixelvision video: https://youtu.be/sFvkFO2OROU Still: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5l9aksu6hgs8b85/Denotations%20title.png?dl=0 **** Joe Carlough’s *The Cats of East Falls, Philadelphia* (4 min, 2021) is a PXL-2000 musical documentary about five of favorite neighborhood cats in East Falls, Philadelphia. Shot entirely in pixelvision, all songs are improvised and unedited. Video link: https://youtu.be/d3fYp2wRge0 Stills: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mfZdCQWnctq4Ib5OhTtaXkoNkOmgiTHM?usp=sharing **** Daniel Florida's Shitty Aliens (2021, 23 minutes) is a story of life on this plane for two beings who arrive here by chance. It combines footage shot with a hi8 camcorder and the Fisher Price toy camera - PXL2000. Pixelvision video: https://youtu.be/C3youuTR_ec Still: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9nko979bfvi5b6v/shitty%20aliens%20pxlthis%20still.png?dl=0 **** LA's Diva Deluxe Suzy Williams serenades Musical Chairs with pianist Brad Kay. **** Preeminent experimental filmmaker John Cannizzaro imagines The Dream of the Drowning Herds. **** Probe (2021, 9 min) by John N. Campbell (Additional Sound: Lori Varga) is presented to appear as a mysterious video artifact from the near future discovered after the current U.S. government has collapsed and secret documents and information have been uncovered from government archives. The footage appears to be the product of an alien civilization's space probe collecting images and data from our planet. But whether the footage is a genuine artifact from an alien civilization or a government psy-op designed to manipulate and control the populace, is left unclear. Video: https://vimeo.com/528023387 **** Nile Southern (author of *The Candy Men; The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel, CANDY) *trips the light fantastic in Industrial Wig Miasma with Bing McGilvray. **** Bart Weiss documents wild dance with party cult polka/rock/worldbeat band in Brave Combo Fun. **** PXL repair man Patrick Gill skateboards Crixit Concresion Roll Tiem. **** PLUS new PXL films from: POETS/WRITERS: SA Gerber, Penny Safranek, Matt Collins, S. Tarpey, Duncan Echelson MUSICIANS: Alex Soschin, JetStar, Francisco J. Ricardo PXL THIS FAVORITES: King Kukulele (Denny Moynahan) and Joey Icon Nucci and Eli Elliott and Nicole Galeano and more . . . PXL NEWS: PXL THIS in UCSB Archive https://www.library.ucsb.edu/gerry-fialka-pxl-archive-pa-mss-231 James Wickstead Inventor of PXL interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfSxLFKJcgg Decoding PXL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4hM5X7m5_k PXL update https://www.cbc.ca/archives/the-pxl-2000-was-a-video-camera-just-for-kids-1.5607701 See last year's fest = PXL THIS 30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n37t6IFU5jQ&t=3811s "PXL is the ultimate people's video." - J. Hoberman, Premiere Magazine. https://sites.google.com/site/pxlthis/ http://pxl2000.blogspot.com/ Pixelvision has been screened in recent years at Lincoln Center in New York, and at LACMA's 3D exhibit in Los Angeles. What's new? It isn't out yet. A major university has acquired the entire PXL THIS archive. Stay tuned for the announcement. Gerry Fialka's book Strange Questions: Experimental Film as Conversation is available https://www.amazon.com/Strange.../dp/B08GPZ2WM5/ref=sr_1_1 <https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Questions-Experimental-Film-Conversation-ebook/dp/B08GPZ2WM5/ref=sr_1_1?fbclid=IwAR1X4DY7pxA_1xfhmVhgDn6stSsnk7vvVXCzyogae3zQ7chD2J6JyLGW7pw> More info: http://laughtears.com/strange-questions.html <http://laughtears.com/strange-questions.html?fbclid=IwAR2YMN-IPo4mAcxR8L9gcdVvYC4qYofUbMxDpZxYnGrmaU1GZinBuBhpJBg> Compelling interviews with notables in avant-garde cinema offer insights into moving image art--its creative processes, formative influences, and hidden psychic effects. Through interviews with George Manupelli, Larry Gottheim, Chick Strand, Tom Gunning, Lynne Sachs, Jay Rosenblatt, Martha Colburn, Evan Meaney, Mike Hoolboom, Robert Nelson, and Nina Menkes, Strange Questions links powerful personal stories with the contemporary media-scape. PXL THIS 32 - Entry deadline Oct 22, 2022 - pfsuzy@ aol.com <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Faol.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3c9eBpYpJfTaLi0t0G-KkRVF0pe9Cz0_Mmf8kAed02QuGuS1DqE1OlhiE&h=AT2cO6c2LSN3NjuXIrfSNUiBmoyYr8g30X1Di7lgYD_85Q3ilXB1MOj4O79xzH0c8lo9U0445lihj-IC47Xrl6FnNr630RIQ7F8l3UoZfhegbe__qDCy2GQL0cJrjnVRBfvSyGIp-A&__tn__=q&c[0]=AT0zGu25qJWcLJtKs7YDYqgSYRRBqbV7-E-l-SxxsABVYNB0H1hAaIdkEmr1UWIpIRD6kkmM3Q51hJq3qdBz04m4dBk2yzX5PEHPSTSxdBK1g17QLPpFcvk1DMj_6BDOEo_EDpm5b4PKc1zlkq5vgOJ7qK0bGaKPg2_gs64sQrpA4nfVjg> NO entry fee Watch PXL THIS 30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n37t6IFU5jQ&feature=youtu.be <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n37t6IFU5jQ&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2YMN-IPo4mAcxR8L9gcdVvYC4qYofUbMxDpZxYnGrmaU1GZinBuBhpJBg> Watch for a maybe second screening & workshop with Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ <http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/?fbclid=IwAR2z9krjlCaGg9YHhq9x30_5Mbitg40tnpMNVXcDZcYSAYNCYm5AaFKyrgs> and other venues. We are open to your suggestions. PXL to CELL: Bravo to Brett for this help in adapting the PXL2000 camcorder to your cell phone: Brett Neese, [email protected], contributes this method of shooting Pixelvision with an Android smartphone. Note that this method has only been tested using a Google Pixel XL (1) and will probably not work with an iPhone/iOS device. Google Pixel (1) can be found on Amazon here. · - The hardest part is first: the camera itself needs to be modified to support composite video out, as the existing hardware only supports modulated RF video (essentially, it pretends to be an analog antenna TV channel.) Patrick Gill, the PXL camera repairman can modify - [email protected] & http://www.bentstruments.com/ <http://www.bentstruments.com/?fbclid=IwAR1ISiAXeqPsRBbF1vJGgftu3b4pOqXn0l0NjaRcoDMvDJvCIQeMv1RPVAg>. There is also a very old DIY guide here. · - Then, use a video capture card to process the incoming video and an app on your phone to interface with the capture card and record the video. We have had some success with this one. · - That video capture card has a full-size USB port on it, so it needs an adapter. If, like the Pixel XL, the Android phone is newer and has a USB-C port, you'll need something like this. If it's an older phone with a micro-USB port, grab something more like this. Not all phones have the ability to plug accessories into the USB port -- do some research to see if your phone supports "USB OTG." · - The app we've had the most success with is "USB Camera Pro," available here. There is a free version that can be used to check if this setup will work. Again, not all phones support this and we've only tested it with a Google Pixel XL (1), so your mileage may vary, as they say. We welcome comments. Roy Parkhurst [email protected] wrote: I recently came across Thomas Worth / Rarevision who have recently released an iOS app that emulates the PXL2000. Tell us more... Original TV commercial for PXL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gshG12svtyg <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgshG12svtyg%26fbclid%3DIwAR05vTf7i1Pd8ghBWDUGEAgJ0TtNsBy7MADTjivadwFguT_z9rmDpshXxVI&h=AT2K3_6gCqD7qIFF7X7dg6rK20nJ_Tblcxi9aS-Vdij43JG2T4xOq5ILGrNlpK6bdyA5nqceQATNzGOJWXvA2NcG67Fw58o-r5hF91P9j__UqHWvw3bPVZKwlOKBZ_zZNv32tN-zWw&__tn__=q&c[0]=AT0zGu25qJWcLJtKs7YDYqgSYRRBqbV7-E-l-SxxsABVYNB0H1hAaIdkEmr1UWIpIRD6kkmM3Q51hJq3qdBz04m4dBk2yzX5PEHPSTSxdBK1g17QLPpFcvk1DMj_6BDOEo_EDpm5b4PKc1zlkq5vgOJ7qK0bGaKPg2_gs64sQrpA4nfVjg> PXL THIS Director Gerry Fialka - hires 300 dpi still with PXL Cam - http://laughtears.com/hi-res-pics.html <http://laughtears.com/hi-res-pics.html?fbclid=IwAR2z9krjlCaGg9YHhq9x30_5Mbitg40tnpMNVXcDZcYSAYNCYm5AaFKyrgs> PXL THIS 31 celebrates its 31st year of creative filmmaking by everyone from kids to professionals. One of the most unique film festivals ever, PXL THIS has been attended by Oliver Stone, Daryl Hannah, Kim Fowley among many more. Pixelvision has even made it onto the big screen via Richard Linklater (Slacker), Michael Almereyda (Nadja, produced by David Lynch) and Craig Baldwin (Sonic Outlaws). The irresistible irony of the PXL 2000 is that the camera's ease-of-use and affordability, which entirely democratizes movie-making, has inspired the creation of some of the most visionary, avant and luminous film of our time. "If movies offer an escape from everyday life, Pixelvision is the Houdini of the film world." - SF Weekly PXL THIS, featuring films made with the Fisher-Price PXL 2000 toy camcorder, is one of the longest running film festivals in the entertainment capital of the world. Celebrating "cinema povera" moving image art, it evokes Marcel Duchamp's axiom "Poor tools require better skills." Pixelators from across the globe hoick up inventive approaches to the unassuming throw-away of consumer culture. These low-tech hi-jinx films come through loud and clear by reframing a new cinema language. Past PXL THIS participants have included Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Chris Metzler (Fishbone & Salton Sea documentaries), James & Sadie Benning, Joe Gibbons, Cecilia Dougherty, Peggy Ahwesh, Jesse Drew, Margie Strosser, Cory McAbee (The Billy Nayer Show), Ann Randolph, Kirsten Stoltmann, and Michael Almereyda. "Gerry Fialka's annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This humble outdated toy continues to bring out the visionary child in filmmakers and viewers alike, and no one has kept the PXL flame burning longer or brighter than Gerry." - Michael Almereyda, director "Gerry Fialka's PXL THIS festival snaps, crackles and pops off the screen with the funky, user-friendly energy of real first-person cinema. Goofy, gorgeous, and altogether groovy, his provocative program of pieces produced with the Fisher-Price PXL 2000 toy video camera is not only downright entertaining, but more, its blipping and buzzing black 'n' white picture-bits coalesce into a veritable inspiration to all those who cherish the playful, spontaneous gestures and low-cost of electronic folk art." - Craig Baldwin, director & curator. "All the PXL THIS videos reflect festival organizer Gerry Fialka's commitment to the freedom produced by making art without financial constraints. PXL THIS is a welcome highlight in the Los Angeles media scene celebrating the rich lexicon available in a tool which might initially seem rather limiting." - Holly Willis, LA Weekly. "Pixelvision may be firmly ensconced in the pantheon of once-popular dead media, but for many of the faithful it captures the heart of the American experience as it should be seen: in basic black and white." - David Cotner, LA Weekly Seminal film experimental filmmaker Hollis Frampton evokes PXL THIS in 1978 : "I didn't really like the work I thought was my best work. I liked the stuff I didn't like a lot more." Rewording Jimmie Durham's overhearing conjures PXL THIS: "Are those real films or did you make them yourself?" "When the aliens are here and deciding whether to vaporize all mankind for our inhumanity, cruelty and greed, showing the aliens PXL THIS will save the world. PXL THIS shows our best nature as humanist creators and subversives against those who deserve it. Save the world. Support PXL THIS." - George Manupelli, founder of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, filmmaker, poet, collagist and political/environmental activist Pixelvision conjures Bucky Fuller's ephemeralization - the idea of minimal material with maximum performance. The PXL THIS Film Festival is similar to what Rachel Kushner wrote about Silvia Kolbowski's After Hiroshima Mon Amour: "The overall effect is well beyond an avoidance of comparison. It's refusal of the seductive surface of the Resnais film, as if to coax viewers out of the trance of filmic nostalgia and toward our own catastrophes and forgetting, our own longing to be faithful to a moment in the face of oblivion." Seminal film critic Pauline Kael evoked Pixelvision in her book Hooked: "I am still a child before a moving image." Hollywood Reporter called Pixelvision a "precursor of today's DV filmmaking." We welcome your input: 1- McLuhan quote, "If it works, it's obsolete." 2- One audience member said that with all the great new digital effects and equipment, it seems as though you could "fix" the picture. 3- PXL pioneer Erik Saks declared many years ago (say what?): "Pixelvision is an aberrant art form, underscored by the fact that since the cameras wear out quickly, and are no longer being manufactured, it holds within itself authorized obsolescence. Each time an artist uses a PXL 2000, the whole form edges closer to extinction.” Ain't no stopping us now. Dig infinity...focus. Watch past PXL THIS festivals online - http://www.willerokan.com/pxlthis.html <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.willerokan.com%2Fpxlthis.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0VFyYey1CrI-MTHrLE2kgwUGwH2CetxOpD14RLWXcwTECTiKkmJR8rZ68&h=AT39OWR85eckWZ-eH18uHSQrFIuWuCOS03LZuVYFWBlWoc5xRRl5TNyNrf-XL-AnFyQVIrTQEL8wKIwMbKJvP--l0S8LwTvpDXpezS6-ubg7XR-fT0LTlD7lBi1sJCengBkp9jjRPg&__tn__=q&c[0]=AT0zGu25qJWcLJtKs7YDYqgSYRRBqbV7-E-l-SxxsABVYNB0H1hAaIdkEmr1UWIpIRD6kkmM3Q51hJq3qdBz04m4dBk2yzX5PEHPSTSxdBK1g17QLPpFcvk1DMj_6BDOEo_EDpm5b4PKc1zlkq5vgOJ7qK0bGaKPg2_gs64sQrpA4nfVjg> Patrick Gill - PXL camera repairman - [email protected] Visit - http://www.bentstruments.com/ <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bentstruments.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1yF7RLK-5KuzQVyYekpAR6A5xTEiyDffBONiqUSsmbnSogcIRbnbxXdY4&h=AT1xcYUn6ePId1K2pkudKvkUG-zV8yIwY3CL0A50QtsqykJTlFTV4Yf5Oiva31tuhcMmQtzur3MyKTIXidhzgN0pVBcG2K_yZzWimsN_5jrnN0lRVpqlh4eNh0jpDYJilHAwpVwjAw&__tn__=q&c[0]=AT0zGu25qJWcLJtKs7YDYqgSYRRBqbV7-E-l-SxxsABVYNB0H1hAaIdkEmr1UWIpIRD6kkmM3Q51hJq3qdBz04m4dBk2yzX5PEHPSTSxdBK1g17QLPpFcvk1DMj_6BDOEo_EDpm5b4PKc1zlkq5vgOJ7qK0bGaKPg2_gs64sQrpA4nfVjg>
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