Rebecca Epstein 7 Days in LA: Dudley Does Venice CityBeat 30/12/04, 2005
"We're just a cozy community cinema house," says Gerry Fialka, curator of 7Dudley Cinema, an alternative, all-volunteer screening venue just off the Venice Boardwalk . . .
"Fialka, who's been curating film programs since the 1970s and is responsible for local experimental festivals PXL THIS and Documental, began showing odd and amazing works at 7 Dudley in November 2002 when the owner of Sponto Gallery suddenly got access to a video projector . . . Since then, what was once the home of the Venice West Café, a Beat coffee house which, according to Fialka, opened at Sunset, closed at sunrise, and hosted the likes of Kerouac and Ginsburg, celebrates that famously creative Venice vibe with a screening every first and third Wednesday of the month. This will quite literally be the case this coming Wednesday when Fialka holds the Venice Centennial Film Festival. At this one-night-only showcase, he'll present Venice, California: Feeding the Sparrows by Feeding the Horses, a 1978 documentary by Moritz Bormann that explores the city's social and cultural politics at the time, to a backing track of George Clinton and Parliament's One Nation Under a Groove. Also scheduled is the 1979 short Rockin' at the Ocean by Gretchen Nemzer, plus Windward Avenue Sketches (1976) and Venice Venus (1977), both by Venice historian John "Dr. Video" Hunt . . .