[25] Guitarist John Frusiante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers has talked about Fialka's influence on him when he was interviewed by music executive and producer Rick Rubin.

[28][29][30] Collaborators have included Mark X. Farina,[31][32] Will Erokan,[33][34][31] Clifford Novey,[29][32] Bruno Kohfield-Galeano,[35] Tyler Bartram,[36] Tim Corvin,[37] and Mike Sakamoto (who is making a film about Fialka);[38] and some films feature Fialka’s wife Suzy Williams,[39] or Morgan Ågren,[40] 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,[41] 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?

[60] 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.

[64] He has also interviewed singer-songwriter Dr. John; music performer-composer-arranger-producer Van Dyke Parks; turntablist-music producer-philosopher-writer DJ Spooky; singer and activist Jello Biafra; Zappa-band guitarists Steve Vai, Warren Cuccurullo, and Mike Keneally, and keyboardist Don Preston; folk musician Baby Gramps; musical satirist Roy Zimmerman; rock and roll groupie-writer-musician-actress Pamela Des Barres; writer Janet Fitch; artists Alexis Smith and Mike Kelley;[65] artist-dancer-choreographer-writer Simone Forti; actress-writer-artist Mary Woronov; actress-singer Ann Magnuson; Firesign Theatre comedian Phil Proctor; comedians Paul Krassner and Rick Overton; filmmakers Nile Southern, Mike Hoolboom,[66] and Haskell Wexler; physicist and media ecologist Robert K. Logan,[67] communications theorist and media ecologist Eric McLuhan (son of Marshall McLuhan); media theorist and writer Douglas Rushkoff; media arts and political theorist Gene Youngblood; Film Threat publication founder Chris Gore;[68] political activist Tom Hayden; and more.

Fialka has published a full book, Strange Questions: Experimental Film as Conversation,[69] of his interviews with notables in avant-garde cinema who offer insights into "its creative processes, formative influences, and hidden psychic effects.

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 on "his own distinctive approach" to James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake,[84] annual Venice film and photography festivals,[85] and a variety of other community events[12] including film screenings, discussion groups, and art shows.