{"id":1448,"date":"2022-08-25T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gerryswake.com\/?page_id=1448"},"modified":"2024-02-06T01:49:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T01:49:32","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gerryswake.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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a film by Mike Sakamoto<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Gerrys Wake <\/i>follows\u00a0<\/i>avant-garde filmmaker and interviewer, Gerry Fialka, as he works with a team of archivists to dig up, hunt down, and sort through his scattered life\u2019s work. Set in the vibrant arts community of Venice, California, the film features a host of Gerry\u2019s friends who likewise find themselves wrestling with the problem of aging, accumulation, and what to do about their artistic \u201cremains.\u201d Gerrys Wake<\/em> is an exploration of the role archiving plays in the lives of artists, as well as a joyful celebration of the humorist and conceptual prankster at its center! \u00a0(Shooting in Progress<\/strong>)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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“Gerry Fialka 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, and books by James Joyce and Marshall McLuhan.  LA Weekly<\/em> has described Fialka as a ‘cultural revolutionary'”(Wikipedia).<\/p>\n

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Director\/videographer\/editor Mike Sakamoto\u2019s short films (Secret Asian Man, Birdman, Rollingman<\/em>) have screened at various venues, including the Sundance Film Festival and the Directors Guild of America; and have been praised by Bill Krohn (Senses of Cinema<\/i>) and Diane Sippl (Cineaction<\/i>).\u00a0 In addition, he has written and directed two feature films: Norman Jones<\/em> and To a Dead Friend<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>

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Gerrys Wake a film by Mike Sakamoto Gerrys Wake follows\u00a0avant-garde filmmaker and interviewer, Gerry Fialka, as he works with a team of archivists to dig up, hunt down, and sort through his scattered life\u2019s work. Set in the vibrant arts community of Venice, California, the film features a host of Gerry\u2019s friends who likewise find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"enabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1448","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerryswake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerryswake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerryswake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerryswake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerryswake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1120,"href":"https:\/\/gerryswake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3178,"href":"https:\/\/gerryswake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1448\/revisions\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerryswake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}