15 Facts About Gerry Fialka

Gerry Fialka was born on March 15,1953 and is an American experimental filmmaker, curator, lecturer, interviewer, and writer.

Gerry Fialka was Frank Zappa's archivist and production assistant for ten years, and worked for George Carlin.

Gerry Fialka answered the phone for Zappa's Barking Pumpkin Records hotline, and ran Zappa's mail-order merchandise business Barfko-Swill.

Gerry Fialka appears giving a tour of Barfko-Swill in the 1987 VHS release of Zappa's film Baby Snakes.

Gerry Fialka has published articles on Zappa, and was a co-interviewer in 1988 when Zappa expressed his thoughts on media theory.

Gerry Fialka has produced recordings by local Venice, California musicians, including Sunny War.

Gerry 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.

Gerry Fialka ran the Ann Arbor Film Co-op from 1972 to 1980.

Gerry Fialka has been a panelist, served on the screening committee, and run many workshops at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

Gerry Fialka founded, curates, and hosts the annual Venice Film Fest.

Gerry Fialka was director of the Ann Arbor 8mm Film Festival.

Gerry 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.

Festival entries, oral history interviews, and other relevant materials donated by Gerry Fialka are being processed into the Performing Arts and Moving Image Archives at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.

Gerry 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.

Gerry Fialka sometimes writes using a pen name that is an obvious take-off on his real name, such as Geritol Fialkaseltzer or Germy Folkywaze.