[Frameworks] PXLTHIS31 this Sunday

[Will Erokan]

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 pfsuzy at aol.com

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 pfsuzy at aol.com 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
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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
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entry fee
Watch PXL THIS 30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n37t6IFU5jQ&feature=youtu.be
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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, brett at neese.rocks, 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 -
patrickg0799 at yahoo.com & 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 ropascopic at gmail.com 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
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PXL THIS Director Gerry Fialka - hires 300 dpi still with PXL Cam -
http://laughtears.com/hi-res-pics.html
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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
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Patrick Gill - PXL camera repairman - patrickg0799 at yahoo.com Visit -
http://www.bentstruments.com/
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