Media 1997

Short film — “Best of PXL This VI”

Short film — "Best of PXL This VI" (PXL This Six), Finalist, Los Angeles, CA. PXL This is the long-running toy-camera film festival for work shot on the Fisher-Price PXL-2000, the $100 children's camcorder that recorded grainy black-and-white video onto ordinary audio cassettes. Several of Sesow's 1990s shorts were shot on the PXL-2000

article · January 24, 1997

“Vidiots to Host Video Festival”

Los Angeles Times · original

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Vidiots video store will host the sixth annual “PXL This” festival on Feb. 7 at 9 p.m.
The festival features videos made on the PXL-2000 toy camera. Among the ones to be screened is Michael Almereyda and Amy Hobby’s underground hit “At Sundance” (1995), which features interviews with 29 film directors including Robert Redford, Ed Burns and Richard Linklater.
Vidiots is at 302 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, (310) 392-8505. Admission is free.

Saved web pages and links

All of Matt Sesow’s short films, 1993–2002 — watch them · with credits and festival history
Los Angeles Times, “Vidiots to Host Video Festival” (January 24, 1997)

Research notes

PXL This VI, the sixth annual festival of videos made on the PXL-2000 toy camera, was held Friday, February 7, 1997, at 9 pm at the Vidiots video store, 302 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica (Los Angeles Times, January 24, 1997; the listing does not name the filmmakers). Found by Grok Bot, checked by Claude, October 17, 2026.

Where this record comes from

history.sesow.com (live, 2026-10-03)

Cite as: Sesow, Matt. “Short film — ‘Best of PXL This VI’.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 1997. history.sesow.com/e/1997-short-film-best-pxl-this.html. Accessed [date].

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