[Frameworks] PXL THIS 33 / 11/14/2023 7pm pst LIVE online

Tue Nov 7 08:58:51 UTC 2023

maybe it would be possible to ''clone'' the pxls cameras in china and sell
them cheap, like korg is  making pocket analog synthesizers and selling
them for about 70 dollars......

El mar, 7 nov 2023 a la(s) 12:07, Adam Hyman (adam at lafilmforum.org)
escribió:

> Hi Gerry,
>
> This email says Sunday Nov 14, but Nov 14 is a Tuesday.  Sunday is Nov
> 12.  What is correct?
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> On 11/7/23, 11:30 AM, "Frameworks on behalf of Will Erokan" <
> frameworks-bounces at film-gallery.org on behalf of williebenign at gmail.com>
> 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 - pfsuzy at aol.com 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, 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/
> <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 - patrickg0799 at yahoo.com 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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