Winter Film Series: the Last Pixxel Show

Thursday, January 11, at 7pm

Digital technology and the internt has fundamentally changed our relationship to media, and short videos on YouTube and Google Video could easily be called the 21st century equivelant of penny-arcade nickelodeons.

Host Max Fenton says, “Sharing stupid movies on the internet has become a million-dollar industry; but hidden amongst the shark attacks and schoolyard fights are the pioneering films of the American and international avant-garde.”

Audience members are invited to bring their own URLs and share their discoveries. Here are some of our personal favorites:

a James Brown interview

FenslerFilm’s G.I. Joe PSA re-edits

John Cage and Raashan Roland Kirk

Len Lye’s Colour Box

two songs by Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street from 1972

Bruce Conner’s Breakway (with a young Toni Basil)

Gumby re-dubbed

Richard William’s lost animation masterpiece The Thief and the Cobbler (more info here)