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*SUN Nov12, 2023 7pm pacific time - LIVE online* PXL THIS 33 Toy Camera Film Festival 2023 https://www.facebook.com/events/850945209382236/ Just enter "PXL THIS 33" on Youtube to tune in, and afterwards view anytime. On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 11:30 AM Will Erokan <[email protected]> wrote: > SUN Nov14, 2023 7pm pacific time - LIVE online > PXL THIS 33 Toy Camera Film Festival 2023 > https://www.facebook.com/events/850945209382236/ > Just enter "PXL THIS 33" on Youtube to tune in, and afterwards view > anytime. > > > PXL THIS 33 PROGRAM > Intro - Gerry Fialka & Bruno Straus > > When the Cow Got Out - Joseph Paulson > > Chip Yips - Suzy Williams > > Moon Curtain - Amanda Samimi > > Doing Time With Tehching Hsieh - Joseph, Lee & Val Paulson > > Hello Up There - Alex Miller > > Can You Believe That? - Ron Grun > > I Climbed The Cascades - Jennie Williams > > Cali - Gerry Fialka > > Finnegans Wake Promo - Roman Tsivkin > > Can't Fool Computers - Eric Ahlberg > > Free Will - Duncan Echelson > > The Owl & The Pussycat - Catherine Allison > > The Wren – Roy Benjamin > > The Recording Hello Device - Nile Southern & BING > > You’ve Just Been Blackballed - Anthony Blackball > > Breath - Lior Tzemch > > Missing Green - Joey Huertas > > Ricky - Fuji Yamamama > > Film Making Itself - Gerry Fialka > > Decadent Acts of Nothingness - Patrick Gill > > Stream of Subconsciousness - Joe Nucci > > Dissolving Sounds - Patrick Gill > > PXL Pie – Gerry Fialka & Bruno Straus > > Documentary – B. Meade > (program subject to change) > Just enter "PXL THIS 33" on Youtube to tune in, and afterwards view > anytime. > > 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, and became an art tool. > Today Pixelators are merging Pixelvision with cell phones and live > streaming. Electronic Folk Art, Lo-Fi Hi-Jinx ! PXL THIS 33 celebrates > visionary moving image artists from seminal experimental filmmakers to > children to homeless to professionals. > > SizzleReel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_03oq4cMu5M&t=9s > > Contact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Fialka > > Special thanks to PXL THIS Film Festival co-director Bruno Straus > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lYixmuJyjI&t=9s > > PXL THIS 34 - Entry deadline Oct 22, 2024 - [email protected] NO entry fee > > Thanks: Mike Sakamoto https://gerryswake.com/ & > https://www.youtube.com/@gfa1930 > > David Seubert > https://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/gerry-fialka-pxl-and-fialka-interview-archive-pa-mss-245 > > "PXL is the ultimate people's video." - J. Hoberman, Premiere Magazine. > Pixelvision has 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. Gerry > Fialka's book Strange Questions: Experimental Film as Conversation: > https://laughtears.com/strange-questions.html > > 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 NEWS= > > PXL THIS participants are all over the place: > > Joseph (Jay) Paulson appears in Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower > Moon". > > Roy Benjamin released a new book “Beating the Bounds: Excess and > Restraint in *Joyce's* Later Works” > > Nile Southern is working on a documentary on his Dad Terry Southern. > > Bruno Straus and Nicole Zwiren just released a new Natural Born documentary > MATERNAL > INTUITION > Patrick Gill is the main PXL Camera repair person > http://www.bentstruments.com/ > - http://www.bentstruments.com/ > *PATRICK can now adapt your PXL cam with DVR hook-up.* > > Please tell us about your news updates, keep us updated, THANK YOU > > …and past PXL THIS participants: > > Josh Freese played drums on Saturday Night Live with the Foo Fighters on > 10-28-23. > > Sunny War appeared on Jimmy Kimmel on 3-14-23. > > 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/ > <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bentstruments.com%2F&h=AT3ax11L3ZebnNRGvF0vdlJK-Wuozbx19lTUMRi5GJOVepFp2RsZILRRr1qg_0hvNf9plwAbotuJWZFWq3BHXb2hy7adla2uFDjYVVbwMlWMENuVzvsSRTNR1vswFta88da7qrOdIUwtrTSUpham&__tn__=q&c%5b0%5d=AT3sCZu-1mEqEr7vErXdRXOk-4lytiE6vJbu7e1vNaUQD3LuKpuAl5f87fBP29USePGjnDHXLsNyvWKg5Fd8PeLvYPhL5ntya-FBz6qSHbrsfDC7XKli7QwRHCyVOFPzwcf0qokBXQ7SE3sMaZ_CFMpYTLgkCtsFgZ8DJhD4Gy4M4Lyj_uqt>. > 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. > > PXL THIS 33 celebrates its 33rd 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." > 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 and on youtube > Patrick Gill - PXL camera repairman - [email protected] Visit - > http://www.bentstruments.com/ > *PATRICK can now adapt your PXL cam with DVR hook-up.* > > Gerry Fialka Podcasts: "I'm Probably Wrong About Everything" > https://www.youtube.com/@improbablywrongabouteveryt6781/streams > > MoSide Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKhUyVgvt8Y >
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