[Frameworks] Gerry FIalka in Topanga Film Fest this Friday at 2pm FREE

[Will Erokan]

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 pfsuzy at aol.com 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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