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VIRTUAL EVENTS • WED OCT 5

  • CO-AUTHORING WITH AI Workshop With Devon Baur

    WED Oct 5 • 3:00-4:30 Click here to join

    In this lecture/workshop we will explore creative writing collaborations between humans and artificial intelligence. Using natural language processors we can generate essay, poems, film scripts with the click of a button. These tools can be both empowering and unsettling. In this workshop we will get hands on experience creatively co-authoring scripts and stories with AI — all the while with a keen attunement to the ethical questions that come with it.

    *No experience necessary. You do not need to be a writer or a programmer for this workshop. Just be sure to join from a computer and bring your curiosity

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  • DANCE FILM SHORT SHOWCASE With Cari Ann SHIM SHAM*

    WED Oct 5 • 4:30-6:00 Click here to join

    The Dance Film Showcase contains short films exploring motions of the body to move minds. Curated by cari ann shim sham* and made available through the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art's permanent collection, the films were part of mowna's first four exhibitions which included the Opening Show, the 2021 mowna Biennial, This Show is Curated by a Machine, and Wild Ideas and Radical Actions.

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  • NFT 101 - Demystifying Non Fungible Tokens and Art as Digital Currency with Cari Ann SHIM SHAM*

    WED Oct 5 • 6:30-7:30 Click here to join

    What is an NFT and how can NFTs be utilized by artists and art collectors? cari ann shim sham* wild artist, longtime programmer for TFF, NYU Tisch Dance & Technology Associate Arts Professor and co-founder and curator for The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art will lead a workshop on NFTs on the Tezos and Ethereum blockchains. Learn the basics of getting a wallet, synching to sites, the NFT market, minting and selling, and what is happening in the Web3 space.


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"Pixelvision may be firmly ensconced in the pantheon of once-popular dead media, but for many of the faithful it captures the heart of the American experience as it should be seen: in basic black and white."

— David Cotner. LA Weekly

How Film Shapes Our Behavior - Pixelvision Salon hosted by Gerry Fialka

Friday, Oct 7 • 2-3:30 Live at Rosewood This is a FREE event!

Gerry Fialka, Director of the PXL THIS Film Festival, hosts a fun interactive salon on how film shapes behaviour through the lense of the Fisher-Price PXL-2000 toy video camera. Pixelvision is electronic folk art evoking the maxim: "The Balinese have no word for art, they do everything as well as they can." Lo-Fi Hi-Jinx.

We'll explore the significance of this raw DIY moving image art tool through the percepts of Marshall McLuhan, George Seurat, Salvador Dali, James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Frank Zappa & more. James Wickstead invented the plastic camcorder and Fisher-Price produced it from 1987 to 1989. It records picture and sound directly onto audio cassettes, which creates its grainy look. Another distinguishing feature is its "in-focus" capability from zero to infinity. The "in your face" attitude restores a certain human vitality to the overpowering sensory overload that bombards us daily. It illustrates McLuhan's percept that television is tactile - you can practically touch the dots, all 2,000 of them (as opposed to the 200,000 you normally see on TV).
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FAUX REEL FILM PANEL
Saturday, Oct 8 • 3:45-4:45 live at Froggy’s

A humorous, improvised film panel with genius fictional filmmakers who will only exist for this special event.

  • Adam was born and raised in Woodstock, NY. At 18, he moved to NYC to attend the illustrious NYU Film School at Tisch School of the Arts, where he proved to be miserable. After two years, he left the school but stayed in NYC where he would study acting, yoga, various approaches to well-being, and also continue his love affair with cinema. Adam eventually returned to Woodstock where he fell in love with improv comedy and played a significant role in the Woodstock Film Festival's founding and first three years of existence. He moved to L.A. in 2003, then Topanga in 2007. He has continued to act, emcee various events (TFF and Topanga Days are his favorites), perform + teach improv,and be a cinephile of course. He's honored to play an important role in the Topanga Film Festival! If you're interested in hiring him for acting, emceeing, or improv coaching, you can email him at nobleloaf@gmail.com. Cheers and merry movie-making & watching friends!

  • Phoebe, is a visual artist, performer/improvisor and writer. She received her undergraduate Film/TV degree from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and had the opportunity to intern on Saturday Night Live and Good Morning America. Phoebe received her MFA from CSULA, studying painting and installation and worked at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art. She has exhibited her paintings, sculptures and installations in solo and group shows in California and New York. Falling in love with comedy improv, Phoebe has been and studying and performing at the world-renowned Groundlings Theatre and School in Los Angeles. She has performed improv in LA and Mexico, and has created and performed live and filmed sketch comedy and has appeared in a variety of short and feature films.

  • Henry is an alumni of The Groundlings Sunday Company and a current faculty member teaching improv at the Groundlings School, Henry Watkins was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Andover and Columbia University. Inspired by his first job in show business working for Joan Rivers, he went on to study with comedy luminaries like Phil Hartman and Jason Alexander, and graduated from the Second City Conservatory. As a stand-up comic, he has appeared at the Comedy Store, The Improv and many smellier comedy venues. Outside of the Groundlings, he also performed improv and sketch comedy in hundreds of shows with The ACME Comedy Theatre, Patrick Bristow's Improvatorium, and the musical improv group Second City Sings. In addition, he was a principal writer-performer and producer on the pilots Slice, The Ghost Boys, and the forthcoming Mane Men. He had roles in the pilots Brooke and Totally, appeared on The Young and The Restless, Tosh.O, The Neighbors, Man Up and once died as a guest star on Spike TV's 1000 Ways to Die. Henry was also cast by Christopher Guest in his Census 2010 project, appeared as a contestant on Jeopardy, and co-starred on American Horror Story alongside Jessica Lange. He has appeared in more than 50 national commercials, including as spokesman for Dish Network, Pictsweet Farms, and Direct TV's NASCAR Hot Pass. He lives in Los Angeles. For more details, sit next to his mother on an airplane.

  • John has acted in over 40 commercials including Nintendo, Comcast, Digiorno, Sonos, NFL, Geico, Volkswagen, Panasonic, 76, Dish, and REDD's Apple Ale. As the writer's assistant on "The Wanda Sykes Show," John wrote jokes that aired on FOX and jokes that were performed on The Tonight Show on NBC. John was the head writer and co-creator of the web-series "Fresh Perspectives" starring SNL's Beck Bennett which evolved into the AT&T "It's Not Complicated" ad campaign. John Dardenne is a former writer and sketch performer on an Upright Citizens Brigade Maude Team as well as a former improvisor for a UCB Mess Hall team. He's hosted Nice Show! stand up at The Hayworth and Game Night at iO West. John is a former Harold Team member at the Westside Comedy Theater and long-time, house-team improvisor at LA Connection. His comedy has featured on CNN, TIME.com, Telegraph UK, Funny or Die, UCB Comedy, The Comic's Comic, U.S. News and World Report, The Week, and Huffington Post. He lives in Los Angeles.

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THE RISE OF AI & THE FUTURE OF VISUAL TECHNOLOGY
Sunday, Oct 9 • 12:30-2:00 live at Froggy’s

  • Paul was born in London and relocated to Topanga in 2007, a fine art graduate he has 30 years experience in Film, TV, advertising, music videos and software development. Working with directors that include Banksy, Michel Gondry, Jonathan Glazer, Tim Burton, Tony Scott, Fernando Meirelles , Peter Hedges and Johnny Depp. On film projects -Troy, Harry Potter, Sorcerer’s Apprentice (not the Disney one), Unstoppable, The Irishman, Valerian, Once Upon a time in Hollywood and on videos for The Killers, Mercury Rev, Paul Macartney, Maroon 5, The White Stripes, Basement Jaxx, Jamiroquai and Primal Scream. He relocated to Topanga in 2007

  • Judith has spent the last 30+ years applying technology to creative pursuits as an educator, digital artist, technical director, digital FX supervisor, technology and production manager and consultant in both film and games development. In the 1990s she worked on ground-breaking effects projects for films including “Fight Club”, “Titanic” and “Apollo 13”, as well as chairing the Animation Festival for SIGGRAPH ’97 and supervising the computer graphics team for the SIGGRAPH ’98 Interactive Dance Club. In the early 2000s Judith brought her production experience to SideFX where she endeavored to communicate the joy of problem solving in Houdini to artists, while sharing the less joyous pain points encountered by artists with R&D. As Games Segment Director she established a new team at SideFX Software that brought Houdini’s procedural content creation tools to the game development community. Most recently Judith has taken on a new role as VP Strategic Partnerships and is enjoying conversing with technologists everywhere.

  • Christian was born in Bern, Switzerland. In 1995 he moved to Los Angeles to work for Jim Cameron’s VFX company DIGITAL DOMAIN on his first two feature films, Titanic and The Fifth Element.

    Since then, he has lent his unique creative vision to over 45 feature films, which have garnered in total 16 academy awards. He specializes in high concept architectural concepts, vehicles, creatures and characters for major feature films, video games and theme parks.

    Some of his recent credits include:
    Black Adam (upcoming) • Guardians of the Galaxy 3 (upcoming) • Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (upcoming)

    Christian Scheurer - IMDb

    Christian Scheurer (@cscheurer2001) • Instagram photos and videos

    ArtStation - Christian Scheurer

  • Martin, has been CEO and founder of CarLabs.ai which creates conversational assistants for the auto industry. His previous roles in successful start-ups include CEO of NewCars.com, VP Engineering at Shopzilla, CTO at Three D Graphics and founder of an orphanage in Haiti. In four decades as a software developer he has witnessed first-hand many emerging technologies like the internet, mobile computing and VR, but none as impactful, exciting and ominous as the rise of machine learning.

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INDIGENOUS STORY PANEL
Sunday, Oct 9 • 2:30 - 3:30 live at Froggy’s

  • Sej is an ethnographic and fine art photographer who has spent the last several years documenting indigenous cultures around the world. She graduated with an MFA from the University of Southern California in 2009, and has since traveled to the deep interiors of Asia and the Americas, capturing portraits that tell stories of remote cultures.

    Her photographic work has taken her to some of the most remote corners of this planet, putting her in contact with profound treasures—from the tattooed headhunters of hidden India to the medicine women of British Columbia; from the shamans of the Venezuelan Amazonas to such globally revered leaders and humanitarians as Their Holinesses the Dalai Lama and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar; from the stunning landscapes of the United States to Vedic scientists and global healers; all with the broader vision of preserving our world’s cultures and lands.

  • D'Pharaoh, is best known for his role as Bear Smallhill in the FX on Hulu comedy-drama series Reservation Dogs.

    Woon-A-Tai began his career with a recurring role as Chase Whaley in season 1 of the 2018 Family Channel series Holly Hobbie. In 2019, Woon-A-Tai played Tom Longboat in a two-episode arc of Murdoch Mysteries season 12. He made guest appearances as Lucky in Creeped Out and Mikey in Tribal. Woon-A-Tai made his feature film debut as Hank in the film Beans directed by Tracey Deer, which became an official TIFF 2020 selection and won Best Motion Picture at the Canadian Screen Awards.

    In December 2020, it was announced Woon-A-Tai would star as Bear Smallhill in the 2021 FX on Hulu comedy-drama Reservation Dogs, "a slice-of-life triumph" from Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi. Set and filmed in rural Oklahoma, Reservation Dogs is a coming-of-age story that follows the antics of rebellious teenagers living on tribal land. The series' cast and crew are made up entirely of Indigenous people. The Denver Gazette described Bear as "played spectacularly by D’Pharaoh, this series' breakout star."

  • Chumash, is CEO at Relatives, Professional Water Protector at Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Reservation and Graphic Art Designer at Become Star Wars.

  • www.garifunafilmfestival.com The GIIFF was founded in 2012 with a mission to preserve the values and aspirations of all indigenous people and Garifuna cultures. Founded by Freda Sideroff an indigene of the Garifuna, the GIFF’s mission is to specifically support the preservation of all indigenous cultures in the world through art and film.

    An annual event where leaders and members of the community are recognized for their contributions to the betterment and elevation of the dignity of humanity, GIIFF showcases a variety of films and documentaries created by Garifuna filmmakers as well as by many other indigenous people including feature films & short films as well as panel discussions, workshops and cultural presentations. It is equally an annual venue that reconciles, entertains and portrays the very diverse and brilliant cultures to participants of the festival.

    At a time when Western civilization is struggling with global problems, the GIIFF showcases important lessons to be learned from indigenous cultures such as interconnectedness, wisdom of our elders, sustainable living and how to live in harmony with nature.

  • Paul is an award winning documentary filmmaker whose work has involved directing, filming and editing a variety of films on a range of issues including the trade in tiger parts, whale and dolphin trade, illegal logging and the ivory trade. His work has involved extensive travel in hazardous environments as a small crew using both open and covert filming techniques. His footage has been used in news features and for programming on BBC, Sky, CNN and a number of other major broadcasters. He has also trained activists media-based campaigning techniques in Indonesia, Papua, India and Tanzania as part of extensive UK Government funded training programs. His directing work with Handcrafted Films has produced a number of award-winning films for major development funders (UK DFID, European Forestry Institute, Ford Foundation, CLUA) and non-governmental organisations (Amnesty, WSPA, EIA, Eco Storm). He has been nominated three times for the Filmakers for Conservation, ‘Filmmaker of the year award’ and is currently Project Director for ‘If Not Us Then Who?’

  • Izzy is an athletic skateboarder who loves film. Izzy has been writing for about a year now and has written small stories and worked with different film crews for different projects. Izzy is an all around board sport enthusiast and athlete. Izzy is Lakota from South Dakota and Han Gwich’in from Eagle village, Alaska. Born in Anchorage but raised in many different areas such as Mongolia, and many of the states in the U.S. Izzy is still currently in school going to the Institute of American Indian Arts. Izzy’s goal in life is to help inspire native youth everything to get out and follow their dreams, especially when it comes to film.

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“THE TERRITORY” TAKE ACTION PANEL
Sunday October 9 • 6:30-7pm live at Froggy’s

  • Alex is a documentary filmmaker focused on human’s relationship with the natural world. Recently, Alex directed The Territory, which premiered in the World Cinema competition at Sundance 2022 where it won both the Audience Award and a Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft, making it the only film at that year’s festival to win awards from both jury and audience alike. IndieWire described the film as, “Gorgeously and sometimes ingeniously conceived, painting an intimate first-hand portrait of joy, pain, and community, before bursting with rip-roaring intensity as it captures a high-stakes struggle for survival unfolding in the moment.” The Territory is being distributed by National Geographic Documentary Films.

    Director Alex Pritz joins us for a informative conversation on the importance that he placed an even-handed approach to conveying the disparate strands of a complex story whose outcome will have a profound impact on the indigenous Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau people, the region surrounding the Amazon rainforest and planet Earth.

  • Atossa has been directing global campaigns for indigenous peoples rights and protection of tropical rainforests for over three decades. Atossa is the Founder and Board President of Amazon Watch, a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin (www.amazonwatch.org). Atossa served as Amazon Watch's first Executive Director for 18 years and continues to support the organization's mission as Board President.

    Currently Atossa is the director of global strategy for the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative working with an alliance of 30 indigenous nations to permanently protect 86 million acres of rainforests in the most biologically diverse ecosystem on Earth in Ecuador and Peru.

  • Paul is an award winning documentary filmmaker whose work has involved directing, filming and editing a variety of films on a range of issues including the trade in tiger parts, whale and dolphin trade, illegal logging and the ivory trade. His work has involved extensive travel in hazardous environments as a small crew using both open and covert filming techniques. His footage has been used in news features and for programming on BBC, Sky, CNN and a number of other major broadcasters. He has also trained activists media-based campaigning techniques in Indonesia, Papua, India and Tanzania as part of extensive UK Government funded training programs. His directing work with Handcrafted Films has produced a number of award-winning films for major development funders (UK DFID, European Forestry Institute, Ford Foundation, CLUA) and non-governmental organisations (Amnesty, WSPA, EIA, Eco Storm). He has been nominated three times for the Filmakers for Conservation, ‘Filmmaker of the year award’ and is currently Project Director for ‘If Not Us Then Who?’

  • Leah is a writer, storyteller, and performance artist who works with story as a tool for social change. Before founding The School for Sacred Storytelling, where she integrates ceremony, ritual, and story for healing, she supported filmmakers in using their film as a tool for change as she implemented social impact campaigns for Active Voice & Sea Studios including Food Inc, The Mystery of Love, and Strange Days on Planet Earth. She produced and hosted The Green Channel at Current TV, articles she has written about climate and culture have been featured in Fast Company, Spirituality & Health Magazine, Huffington Post, and National Geographic News Watch.

Learn more at: theterritoryimpact.org

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TFF22 Digital Art Exhibition

NFTs included in order of appearance: Linda Dounia, Pierre Gervois, Rosalind~Linda Dounia & Rose Jackson, ailadi, Mario Klingemann, Iñigo Bilbao, Elna Frederick, Lorna Mills, SV3ZR, ertdfgcvb, and Rodell Warner.

These NFTs are part of the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art's mowna Tezos Exhibition, on view at https://www.mowna.org/museum/tezos-exhibition and https://objkt.com/profile/mowna/owned

NFTs included in order of appearance: Huw Messie, Nude Robot,Andreas Rau & Marcelo Soria-Rodríguez.

These NFTs are part of the Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art's mowna Tezos Exhibition, on view at https://www.mowna.org/museum/tezos-exhibition and https://objkt.com/profile/mowna/owned