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  1. Today Pixelvision is a technological unicorn: rather than a mass cultural phenomenon, the format is now a shimmering pre-digital memory. Marketed to teenagers with the slogan "You've always been heard, but now you can be seen," the imagery produced by the PXL 2000 was a pale shadow of the glossy and colorful TV commercial that heralded ...
  2. cmsw.mit.edu

    cult following. It has inspired PXL THIS, an annual Pixelvision film festival that travels around the country, Pixelporn, a one-time online festival of pornographic Pixelvision shorts, and has even found its way into 35mm commercial films such as Richard Linklater's Slacker (1991) and Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000).
  3. Fisher Price PXL 2000 Camera This thesis is a study of the Fisher Price PXL 2000 camera and the artists and amateurs who make films and videos with this technology. The Pixelvision camera records video onto an audiocassette; its image is low-resolution, black and white. Fisher Price marketed the PXL 2000 to children in 1987, but withdrew the camera after one year.
  4. filmlinc.org

    Pixelvision had a look like nothing else, a dreamy visual texture, fuzzy as a faded memory, and the format had a surprise second act in the hands of experimental filmmakers, who used the device to shoot some truly remarkable movies, Prepare for Dune: Part Two with the films of Denis Villeneuve!
  5. artforum.com

    Joe Gibbons, the very prototype of a cantankerous outsider artist, began his filmmaking career shooting in an earlier amateur format, Super 8, but around 1990 he started working in Pixelvision, a format whose capacity for smothering close-ups suited the conspiratorial bent of his stream-of-consciousness, monologue-driven work, often based ...
  6. "The Art of Pixelvision" is an astonishing 2-DVD set that showcases videos created with the infamous discounted toy camera, PXL-2000. Originally developed in 1987 for children, it was swiftly pulled from the market due to lack of consumer interest, but years later artists began using the format to create experimental films.
  7. academia.edu

    This article discusses experimental video art made with the pixelvision camera PXL2000, a dated format withdrawn from the market in 1989 and rediscovered by fimmakers with counter-cultural, subversive and radical agendas in the early 1990s. ... what it shared then with Super-8 in the 1990s was, instead of a common future, a common past as a ...
  8. filmlinc.org

    Flat Is Beautiful: The Strange Case of Pixelvision will take place August 10-16 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. "Picture what your kids can do with the new PXL 2000." So went the 1987 advertising campaign for Fisher-Price's latest offering, a lightweight plastic camcorder conceived specifically for children. Invented by James Wickstead, the device allowed for 10 minutes of footage ...
  9. nofilmschool.com

    NFS: What were the limitations and, as an extension of that, advantages of shooting a narrative work via Pixelvision?. Almereyda: The disadvantage is that the Pixel image isn't considered broadcast quality, so a film shot in this format—at that time at least—was considered absolutely uncommercial, unreleasable, undistributable, and unshowable on TV.

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