{"id":3860,"date":"2018-08-10T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/08\/10\/pixelvision-dreams-why-michael-almereyda-used-a-childrens-camera-to-make-movies\/"},"modified":"2018-08-10T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T16:50:00","slug":"pixelvision-dreams-why-michael-almereyda-used-a-childrens-camera-to-make-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/08\/10\/pixelvision-dreams-why-michael-almereyda-used-a-childrens-camera-to-make-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixelvision Dreams: Why Michael Almereyda Used a Children&#8217;s Camera to Make Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2018\/08\/pixelvision-pxl-2000-michael-almereyda\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_medium\/public\/anothergirlanotherstill.png?itok=GR7W2Tj2\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nA long-forgotten camera was the culprit for movies worth remembering. &#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nWhile many filmmakers&#8217; first brush with production arrived while making movies as children with their parents&#8217; camcorder, few adult filmmakers have the experience of using a camera designed for children to make their feature films.&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nSuch is the case with a select few, however, including Sadie Benning, Elisabeth Subrin, and Michael Almereyda, each of whom used the long-forgotten PXL 2000\u2014an affordably clunky Fisher Price camera designed for children usage in the late 1980s\u2014to make independent work on the blurry, often pixelated image-capturing device.&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nNew York&#8217;s Film Society of Lincoln Center and Brooklyn-based Light Industry have teamed up for <em>Flat is Beautiful: The Strange Case of Pixelvision<\/em>, a one-week retrospective series that unearths these black-and-white wonders and projects them onto a screen much larger than the filmmakers could have ever expected.&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2018\/08\/pixelvision-pxl-2000-michael-almereyda\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: NoFilmSchool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; A long-forgotten camera was the culprit for movies worth remembering. &#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; While many filmmakers&#8217; first brush with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-camera"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-10g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}