Please spread the word. . . HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE . . . Join Gerry Fialka this coming Friday, Oct7 from 2 to 3:30pm at Rosewood Art Center, 1111 N Topanga Canyon Blvd #1135, Topanga, CA 90290, free admission, for a fun interactive discussion on HOW FILMS SHAPE OUR BEHAVIOR - part of Topanga Film Festival https://topangafilminstitute.org/panels/events Park at Froggy's 1105 N Topanga Canyon Blvd, Topanga, CA 90290 (right next door)
PXL THIS Sizzle Real on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_03oq4cMu5M HOW FILM SHAPES BEHAVIOUR - PIXELVISION SALON - Gerry Fialka, Director of the PXL THIS Film Festival, hosts a fun interactive salon on how film shapes behaviour through the lense of the Fisher-Price PXL-2000 toy video camera. Pixelvision is electronic folk art evoking the maxim: "The Balinese have no word for art, they do everything as well as they can." Lo-Fi Hi-Jinx. We'll explore the significance of this raw DIY moving image art tool through the percepts of Marshall McLuhan, George Seaurat, Salvador Dali, James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Frank Zappa & more. James Wickstead invented the plastic camcorder and Fisher-Price produced it from 1987 to 1989. It records picture and sound directly onto audio cassettes, which creates its grainy look. Another distinguishing feature is its "in-focus" capability from zero to infinity. The "in your face" attitude restores a certain human vitality to the overpowering sensory overload that bombards us daily. It illustrates McLuhan's percept that television is tactile - you can practically touch the dots, all 2,000 of them (as opposed to the 200,000 you normally see on TV). Orson Welles said that a movie studio is "the biggest electric train set a kid ever had." On the other end of the spectrum, the PXL-2000 video camera is the cheesiest failed toy ever -- a train crashes on the playground. Yet, in the hands of visionary video-makers, it has become an essential tool of cutting-edge creativity. The irresistible irony of the PXL 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. More: Gerry Fialka [email protected] 310-306-7330 Laughtears.com <http://laughtears.com/> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Fialka https://www.facebook.com/events/949145489315187 UPCOMING: SUNDAY, Oct 16 - Music Films with Mark Cantor: *"I've Just Gotta See It But It Ain't On YouTube Blues"* rare jazz, blues, folk music, Western Swing clips that cannot seen on YouTube or DVDs. 6pm-live music, 7pm-films at Beyond Baroque 681 Venice Blvd. Laughtears.com <http://laughtears.com/> Free admission *https://www.facebook.com/events/789902615532438/ <https://www.facebook.com/events/789902615532438/>*
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