PXL THIS is a festival that features videos produced using the PXL 2000, a plastic toy video camera made by Fisher-Price between 1987-9 that records sound and images directly onto audiocassettes. The picture is comprised of 2,000 "pixels" as opposed to the 150,000 pixels seen on the average TV screen, which makes for a very grainy but appealing quality.
PXL THIS organizer Gerry Fialka says, "PXL is the essential utensil of creation. The really creative artist does a lot with nothing. PXL THIS is based on the statements: 'It is literally possible to do more with less' - Buckminster Fuller; and 'Film will only become art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper' - Jean Cocteau. It's a real pencil and paper mentality. Express yourself, and don't be afraid to break some rules.?
"PXL THIS is worthy of praise...spellbinding. The shifting bricks of light and dark that form the Fisher-Price PXL 2000's picture lend themselves well to personal essays, creating an invigorating mesh of ambiguity and intimacy in every frame." - Paul Malcolm, LA Weekly.
Tonight's program features 14 shorts compiled from PXL THIS Film Festivals spanning 2003 to 2006.
Gerry Fialka will also appear:
Sat, Nov 15 from 1:30-3 at Museum Bldg Theatrette: WHO's JAMMIN THE JAMMERS? culture jamming workshop
Sun, Nov 16 same time and place as Sat: THE ART of FAKERY in EXPERIMENTAL & DOCUMENTARY FILM workshop
Thurs, Nov 20 from 5pm-6:30 PXL THIS FILM FESTIVAL (toy camera videos and workshop).
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Gerry Fialka is worth taking the time to listen to and dialogue with.
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