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# A Toy Camera Film Festival Returns to Los Angeles
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/pxl-this-a-toy-camera-film-festival-returns-to-los-angeles/
- Published: 2017-12-06T12:00:34.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:40:33.000Z
- Description: Now in its 27th year, the PXL This festival showcases the wide range of pixelvision's possibilities with over two dozen films.
- Author: Matt Stromberg
- Tags: Art, Events, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:30(2016, 2017, part 3)

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Marc Bascougnano, still from “Trois Plumes (Three Feathers)” (image courtesy the artist and PXL This)

Introduced in 1987, Fisher-Price’s PXL-2000 is a toy camcorder that records lo-fi, black-and-white videos onto audio cassettes. Although it was only on the market for a year, it has garnered an enthusiastic following in the ensuing three decades, finding popularity with everyone from children and amateur cineastes, to artists and experimental filmmakers like [Sadie Benning and Joe Gibbons](http://www.vdb.org/category/tags/pixelvision?ref=hyperallergic.com).

Now in its 27th year, the [PXL This](http://laughtears.com/PXL-THIS-27.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) festival showcases the wide range of pixelvision’s possibilities with over two dozen films, from the narrative to the abstract, absurd to enigmatic. Highlights include David Witzing’s “[To the Inland Ocean](http://drw.frametheweb.com/motion-pictures/to-the-inland-ocean/?ref=hyperallergic.com),” a two-part nature film that combines still shots in color, with pixelated black-and-white footage of sublime seascapes, and Eli Elliott’s “[Orpheus 5](http://www.elienation.org/orpheus-5.html?ref=hyperallergic.com),” a combination of found footage and Paul McCarthy-style abjection. Relatively cheap and easy to use, the PXL-2ooo offers anyone with an idea the opportunity to become an auteur, providing the missing link between DIY punk cinema and today’s digital directors.

**When:** Monday, December 11, 6–7:30pm (pre-show begins at 4pm)  
**Where:** UnUrban (3301 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, California)

*More info* [*here*](https://www.facebook.com/events/299975280487160/)*.*