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Gerry Fialka (Gerald Joseph Fialka) was born on 15 March, 1953 in Flint, Michigan, U.S., is an An american experimental filmmakers. Discover Gerry Fialka's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?
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Gerald Joseph Fialka |
| Occupation |
experimental filmmaker, film and art festival curator, lecturer, interviewer, writer |
| Age |
71 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Pisces |
| Born |
15 March 1953 |
| Birthday |
15 March |
| Birthplace |
Flint, Michigan, U.S. |
| Nationality |
United States
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He is a member of famous film with the age 71 years old group.
Gerry Fialka Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Gerry Fialka's Wife?
His wife is Suzy Williams
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Suzy Williams |
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Gerry Fialka Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Gerry Fialka worth at the age of 71 years old? Gerry Fialka’s income source is mostly from being a successful film. He is from United States. We have estimated Gerry Fialka's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Not Available |
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Not Available |
| Source of Income |
film |
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Timeline
Gerry Fialka (born March 15, 1953) is an American experimental filmmaker, curator, lecturer, interviewer, and writer.
He lectures and leads workshops on experimental film, avant-garde music and art, subversive social media, books by James Joyce, and Marshall McLuhan’s media theory.
He was Frank Zappa’s archivist and production assistant for ten years.
LA Weekly has described Fialka as a “cultural revolutionary”.
Fialka ran the Ann Arbor Film Co-op from 1972 to 1980.
He has been a panelist, served on the screening committee (1977-1980), and run many workshops at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Fialka founded, curates, and hosts the annual Venice Film Fest.
He was also director of the Ann Arbor 8mm Film Festival.
Fialka is the founder, organizer, and curator of the PXL THIS Film Festival, usually held at the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center and the Echo Park Film Center, both in Los Angeles, California.
Fialka worked for musician-composer Frank Zappa as archivist, production assistant, tour assistant, and factotum from 1983 to 1993.
He answered the phone for Zappa’s Barking Pumpkin Records hotline, and ran Zappa’s mail-order merchandise business Barfko-Swill.
Fialka appears giving a tour of Barfko-Swill in the 1987 VHS release (but not the original 1979 film release) of Zappa's film Baby Snakes.
While not listed in the film credits, he is credited on-screen as "GERALD FIALKA Cool Guy Who Wraps Stuff So It Doesn't Break".
Fialka has published articles on Zappa, and was a co-interviewer in 1988 when Zappa expressed his thoughts on media theory.
In a 1990 interview, Zappa mentioned that Fialka gave him a present that impressed him more than any other present from his staff: a videotape of The World's Greatest Sinner.
Zappa band member Ike Willis called Fialka "one of the most brilliant people I have ever known and ever met ... an astoundingly astute and brilliant person ... the kind of guy that Frank [Zappa] loved to have in his orbit."
Fialka has written, directed, produced, and/or acted in several short experimental films.
Collaborators have included Mark X. Farina, Will Erokan, Clifford Novey, Bruno Kohfield-Galeano, Tyler Bartram, and Tim Corvin; and some films feature Fialka’s wife Suzy Williams, or Morgan Ågren, who played drums for various Frank Zappa projects and concerts.
Fialka produced and directed a feature-length experimental documentary film The Brother Side of the Wake, released in 2021, about the people of Venice in Los Angeles, California.
It is billed as a remake of Orson Welles's satire The Other Side of the Wind, since both films probe the same question: "Is the journey more important than the destination?"
Fialka's film mixes in elements of "psychic effects of direct cinema, abstract animation, films about films", communal call-and-response ritual, and James Joyce’s book Finnegans Wake.
The festival features films made using a PXL-2000 toy video camera formerly sold by Fisher-Price.
Although the festival operates without a budget, it still manages to tour many locations including the San Francisco Cinematheque and Boston's MIT campus.
Festival entries, oral history interviews, and other relevant materials donated by Fialka are being processed into the Performing Arts and Moving Image Archives at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
Fialka has conducted and published close to 200 interviews.
His interview of funk musician George Clinton was published in Flipside fanzine.
Fialka has published a full book, Strange Questions: Experimental Film as Conversation, of his interviews with notables in avant-garde cinema who offer insights into "its creative processes, formative influences, and hidden psychic effects."
Some of his other interviews have been cited or republished by others.
Fialka has published essays in various experimental film magazines including cineSource Magazine, Otherzine, and Canyon Cinemazine, and regularly publishes essays on local news in the Free Venice Beachhead.
He sometimes writes using a pen name that is an obvious take-off on his real name, such as Geritol Fialkaseltzer or Germy Folkywaze.
Fialka has written a chapter " ‘Don’t Even Look At It' ─ Pixelvision & Multi-Screens" in the book Undependently Yours: Imagining A World Beyond The Red Carpet.
Fialka was Executive Producer for the first song, "Revenge of the Nurds", ever released by Dawayne Bailey, who went on to play guitar for rock music bands including Chicago and Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band.
Fialka also acted as Bailey’s first manager.
They currently live in Venice, Los Angeles, California, where Fialka founded, organizes, and leads reading clubs on Marshall McLuhan’s books and percepts on media theory and James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake, annual Venice film and photography festivals, and a variety of other community events including film screenings, discussion groups, and art shows.
He also displays his own artwork, primarily collages, in local art shows, and produces local live musical shows.
He performs in local music bands, including as a contributor to the Waywords and Meansigns international project setting Finnegans Wake to music.
A short clip of this appearance is also included in the 2020 documentary film Zappa.
Fialka and Williams were the featured couple in the July 2020 edition of Venice Living magazine.
