Special Guest
Friday, May 30, 10AM
MTC, $10 An Invention Without A Future: The Best of PXL This
Join Gerry Fialka—film curator, writer, lecturer, paramedia ecologist and Director of the PXL This Festival—for a special screening of Best of PXL This, 13-16, a showcase of films from around the world made with the Fisher-Price toy video camera. Fialka will offer an interactive workshop “Pixelvision: Electronic Folk Art” following the screening. The irresistible irony of the PXL is the camera’s ease of use and affordability which entirely democratizes moviemaking, inspiring the creation of some of the most luminous films of our time. 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, which records sound and image directly onto audio cassette, continues to empower no-budget auteurs world wide.
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| 2008 Mendocino Film Festival |