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Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · 30m

🎬 Calling all filmmakers! 🌟 Here's your chance to be part of PXL THIS 35, one of LA’s oldest, oddest, and most experimental film festivals! Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to showcase your work in the heart of the movie capital.
#ExperimentalCinema #PXLTHIS35
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PXL THIS 35

Filmmakers get a fresh chance to enter PXL THIS 35, one of the oddest, oldest, and most experimental film festivals here in L.A., a movie capital.“Still NO entry fee,” PXL THIS founder Gerry Fialka sa...

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Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · 2d

📢CALLING ALL FILM MAKERS📢

We are still taking submissions for
PXL THIS 35 Film Festival! We want to hear your voice and see your pixel magic vision.

It’s FREE!

Deadline: Oct 22, 2025 | No Entry Fee
Contact: [email protected]

#filmmaking #diy #laughtears #losangeles #california #PXLFEST #PXLFEST35

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Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · 1d

🎉30th Anniversary of the Venice Wake!🎉

Tonight, Gerry Fialka's legendary Venice Wake hits a huge milestone – 30 years of diving deep into the Finnegans Wake rabbit hole!

It took Gerry 28 years to read Joyce’s masterpiece, but two years later... he’s STILL going! Up to page… oh, Page 26. 🧐

Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · 2d

📢CALLING ALL FILM MAKERS📢

We are still taking submissions for
PXL THIS 35 Film Festival! We want to hear your voice and see your pixel magic vision.

It’s FREE!

Deadline: Oct 22, 2025 | No Entry Fee
Contact: [email protected]

#filmmaking #diy #laughtears #losangeles #california #PXLFEST #PXLFEST35

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Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · 7d

🎬 **CALL FOR FILM SUBMISSIONS!** 🎥

We're still accepting films for PXL THIS 35 Toy Camera Film Festival! Submit your films by Oct 22, 2025.

More info: laughtears.com

Questions? Contact Gerry Fialka: [email protected]
#PXLTHIS35 #FilmFestival #ToyCameraFilms #CinemaPovera

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Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · 7d

🎬✨ Souvenir - A Short Film by Stephen Rose📹

Captured through the lens of a toy camera. Watch as a story unfolds with stunning imagination and raw emotion, all while pushing the limits of creativity. 🌟
#ToyCamera #PXL2000 #Fable #IndieFilm #ExperimentalCinema #laughtears

youtu.be/8jdTpsdEAQ4?...

Souvenir - Short Film - Stephen Rose

YouTube video by Stephen Rose

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Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · 4d

🎬 Kids + toy cams = radical cinema

Thanks to MUBI for spotlighting the DIY magic of the Fisher-Price PXL2000 & celebrating Gerry Fialka’s PXL THIS fest, now in its 35th year of lo-fi brilliance.

📺 PXL THIS 35 streams on YouTube, Nov 16 at 7 PM PST

🎞️ Still taking submissions
Submit by 10/22/25

Children Make Movies

Surveying the vast and appropriately unruly canon of underage auteurs.

mubi.com

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Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · 4d

🎬 Kids + toy cams = radical cinema

Thanks to MUBI for spotlighting the DIY magic of the Fisher-Price PXL2000 & celebrating Gerry Fialka’s PXL THIS fest, now in its 35th year of lo-fi brilliance.

📺 PXL THIS 35 streams on YouTube, Nov 16 at 7 PM PST

🎞️ Still taking submissions
Submit by 10/22/25

Children Make Movies

Surveying the vast and appropriately unruly canon of underage auteurs.

mubi.com

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Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · 7d

🎬 **CALL FOR FILM SUBMISSIONS!** 🎥

We're still accepting films for PXL THIS 35 Toy Camera Film Festival! Submit your films by Oct 22, 2025.

More info: laughtears.com

Questions? Contact Gerry Fialka: [email protected]
#PXLTHIS35 #FilmFestival #ToyCameraFilms #CinemaPovera

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Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · 9d

Check it out!!

richard alan barlow @richardalanbarlow.bsky.social · 9d

Really enjoyed chatting about Joyce - and all sorts of other subjects - with Gerry Fialka on the ‘I’m Probably Wrong About Everything’ podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytL...

@laughtears.bsky.social @standrewsenglish.bsky.social

InnerViews#698 Richard Alan Barlow

YouTube video by I'm Probably Wrong About Everything

www.youtube.com

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Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · 7d

🎬✨ Souvenir - A Short Film by Stephen Rose📹

Captured through the lens of a toy camera. Watch as a story unfolds with stunning imagination and raw emotion, all while pushing the limits of creativity. 🌟
#ToyCamera #PXL2000 #Fable #IndieFilm #ExperimentalCinema #laughtears

youtu.be/8jdTpsdEAQ4?...

Souvenir - Short Film - Stephen Rose

YouTube video by Stephen Rose

youtu.be

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Wake in Progress @wake-in-progress.bsky.social · Aug 16

Do you have a moment to talk about singularity, Oh Bringer of Plurabilities? That was our previous meeting, and now we are getting ready for more plurabilities to morra!

Art by Linda Lotiel

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Wake in Progress @wake-in-progress.bsky.social · Aug 18

Yesterday we had a very special guest: Raphael Slepon, the Man Behind Fweet!
With the Man Behind Fweet in front of us, we examined the envelope, which was the star of the fragment, and ended up bewilderblissfully enveloping our examination in spectrality and fractality, adding some local colour!

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Wake in Progress @wake-in-progress.bsky.social · Aug 24

In this mindmap, drawn today, blue and yellow unite as Ukraine celebrates it Independence. Just as with Ireland, Ukraine's way to freedom was long and hard, and, unbelievably, we still have to fight for it. Stand with Ukraine... and find a secret message in this picture.
Art by Linda Lotiel

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Wake in Progress @wake-in-progress.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yesterday we met our fifth Thunderword, the improbable met the inevitable, and Joyce met Proust. Many other meetings besides, as well as discoveries - treasures in the trash, an archeological quest conducted by the Biddy the hen.
The matrix and the limerick are by @augustinealoysius.bsky.social

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Wake in Progress @wake-in-progress.bsky.social · 17d

So much depends on a yellow tea stain spilled on a letter beside the original hen.

(This is the mindmap of our previous meeting. In our meeting today, the stain has grown even larger)

Art by Linda Lotiel

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Wake in Progress @wake-in-progress.bsky.social · 9d

The matrix for our latest session was based on the art by the Dutch painter Gerard ter Borch. It inspired wild interpretations of its own: somehow even Freud got involved! He had to leave his cozy study and grab a time machine to travel to the 17 century Holland.
Ah, the chaosmos of Finnegans Wake.

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Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · 9d

Check it out!!

richard alan barlow @richardalanbarlow.bsky.social · 9d

Really enjoyed chatting about Joyce - and all sorts of other subjects - with Gerry Fialka on the ‘I’m Probably Wrong About Everything’ podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytL...

@laughtears.bsky.social @standrewsenglish.bsky.social

InnerViews#698 Richard Alan Barlow

YouTube video by I'm Probably Wrong About Everything

www.youtube.com

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Reposted by Gerry Fialka

richard alan barlow @richardalanbarlow.bsky.social · 9d

Really enjoyed chatting about Joyce - and all sorts of other subjects - with Gerry Fialka on the ‘I’m Probably Wrong About Everything’ podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytL...

@laughtears.bsky.social @standrewsenglish.bsky.social

InnerViews#698 Richard Alan Barlow

YouTube video by I'm Probably Wrong About Everything

www.youtube.com

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Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · 14d

Join us at the Venice Public Library!

Join Gerry Fialka for this fun and interactive salon. Special Guests include Todd von Hoffman, Linda Lucks and Marty Liboff. Explore the remarkable history of Venice!

#fun #panel #history #venicebeach #library #losángeles

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Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · 14d

Still taking submissions for
PXL THIS 35!

#Laughtears #lofi #hijinks #toycamermamagic

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Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · 14d

Still taking submissions for
PXL THIS 35!

#Laughtears #lofi #hijinks #toycamermamagic

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Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · 14d

Join us at the Venice Public Library!

Join Gerry Fialka for this fun and interactive salon. Special Guests include Todd von Hoffman, Linda Lucks and Marty Liboff. Explore the remarkable history of Venice!

#fun #panel #history #venicebeach #library #losángeles

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Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Gerry Fialka @laughtears.bsky.social · Sep 7

Good things comin’ #VENICEWAKE

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