Event
Found Footage Festival
New York, NY The Found Footage Festival, the popular touring showcase of odd and hilarious clips from found videotapes, is coming to your city. Having played to sold out crowds in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and other cities around the country, the Found Footage Festival curators are looking forward to bringing their brand-new lineup of video clips and live comedy to selected cities in the U.S. in 2007.
The Found Footage Festival is a one-of-a-kind event that compiles over an hours worth of footage from videotapes that were found at garage sales and thrift stores, and in warehouses and trash bins throughout the country. Curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher host each screening in-person and provide their unique observations and commentary on these found video obscurities. From the curiously-produced industrial training video to the forsaken home movie donated to Goodwill, the Found Footage Festival resurrects these forgotten treasures and serves them up in a lively 90-minute celebration of all things found.
Among the new clips in the 2007 show:
Highlights from a cable access talent show called Stairway to Stardom
An all-new collection of exercise videos featuring Marky Mark Wahlberg, O.J. Simpson and a group of rapping pregnant ladies
An instructional video for a cosmetic device so frightening that it will forever haunt you
The Found Footage Festival has been named a Critics Pick in dozens of publications, including The Onion, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, and on Wired.com. The curators have been featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live, G4s Attack of the Show and recently on National Public Radio. The Onion lauded, bank on a big crowd and more than a few laughs at the expense of videotaped others.
ABOUT THE CURATORS
Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett began collecting found videotapes in 1991 after stumbling across a McDonalds training video entitled, Inside and Outside Custodial Duties. Since then, they have compiled an impressive collection of strange, outrageous and profoundly stupid videos. Pickett, a former film technician, and Prueher, a former segment producer at the Late Show with David Letterman, have written for The Onion and recently directed the feature-length documentary, Dirty Country, which won the Audience Award at the 2007 South By Southwest Film Festival.
FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL ACCOLADES
Named a Critics Pick in dozens of publications, including The Onion, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, Los Angeles Times, CitySearch, Flavorpill and The Chicago Tribune
The subject of multi-page features in Punk Planet magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Resonance magazine and on Wired.com
Featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live, G4s Attack of the Show, and National Public Radio
This event is a show thats not to be missed. Film Threat, 12/12/04
Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher have harnessed the voyeuristic impulse thats made Found magazine such a smash and done it one betterFunny, disturbing, and disorienting. J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader, 12/17/04
Guaranteed to amuse and amaze you at the kinds of videotaped junk people leave lying around Isthmus, 12/17/04
For a society still fascinated by reality TV, this is the ultimate voyeuristic look at forgotten moments, at expired nostalgia, at scenes someone found valuable enough to record but not keep. Jennifer Wehunt, UR Magazine, 12/17/04
Bank on a big crowd and more than a few laughs at the expense of videotaped others. The Onion, 3/23-3/30/05
A unique film festival designed to appeal to those who enjoy the voyeuristic embarrassment of catching a neighbor playing air guitar or relish the contrived storylines of corporate training videos. Harmon Leon, Wired.com, 4/5/05
I nearly died laughing. Will Femia, MSNBC.com, 4/13/05
A mind-bogglingly inane collection of middle-Americas fixation with the video camera.
-Joshua Bernstein, New York Press, 8/3-8/9/05
A surprisingly compelling selection of found film footage
-New York Magazine, 7/25/05
RiotousThats the express aim of the Found Footage Festival: vigorous, athletic laughter at the misfortune of others. J. Sullivan, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/11/05
Five stars (out of five). No mortal man could possibly come up with something this entertaining...Itll be an experience youll be talking about for a long time to come.
Eric Campos, Film Threat, 8/10/04
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LocationCentral Cinema
1411 21 avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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