Some would call experimental filmmaker and Venice historian Gerry Fialka a renaissance man. He has presented at 17 salons about the history and culture of Venice at the Venice Heritage Museum and organizes a handful of local annual events, including PXL THIS, a fest featuring films made with the Fisher-Price PXL2000 toy camcorder.
“The PXL2000 is a really cool obsolete failed kids’ toy that is enabling people to be creative,” said Fialka, who then quoted musician, actor and filmmaker Frank Zappa, who he worked for in the ’80s and ’90s. “Zappa said, ‘Progress is not possible without deviation.’ In this case, the camcorder is enabling people to expand experimenting with a medium.”
Fialka then referred to James Joyce, who is the subject of a reading club he has run for 30 years, who commented on the value and delight of finding an epiphany, or the extraordinary, in everydayness. . . .
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Jessica Koslow 