Found Footage Festival
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Started in 2004, the Found Footage Festival is a live comedy event and screening featuring odd and hilarious clips from videotapes gathered from thrift stores, garage sales, warehouses, and Dumpsters throughout the United States. It has its roots in the found art movement made famous by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, but maintains an irreverent sense of humor with its source material, similar to Found Magazine. The "festival" originated in Wisconsin and Minnesota, but now makes its home base in New York City.
Although the show evolves with new material for each tour, its midwestern influence is still prominent in its source material, and many of the clips come from this region of the country. In addition, the show continues to feature staple clips that have become fan favorites, including:
- It Only Takes a Second, a safety video from Federated Mutual Insurance
- outtakes from Winnebago promotional videos featuring a foul-mouthed host named Jack Rebney
- Harvey Sid Fisher music videos of songs describing the zodiac
- clips of the public access television show Stairway to Stardom
Creators/Curators Joe Pickett, Nick Prueher and Geoff Haas host each screening and provide their unique observations and commentary on these found video obscurities. From curiously-produced industrial training videos to forsaken home movies left in VCRs and camcorders donated to Goodwill, the Found Footage Festival resurrects these forgotten treasures and serves them up in an entertaining celebration of all things found.
In 2006, the Found Footage Festival began offering for sale a DVD of the show's March 25, 2006, screening at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, New York, called Volume One: Live in Brooklyn. This has been supplemented by the 2007 release of a second DVD, "The Found Footage Festival Volume Two."
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