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A stranded spaceship pilot captured by mad scientists survives a blitz of cheesy B movies by riffing on them with his funny robot pals.
Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of - after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny outtakes became an underground sensation and made him an internet superstar. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer journeys to the top of a mountain to find the recluse who unwittingly became the "Winnebago Man".
Follows childhood friends turned professional comedians, Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett, the founders of the Found Footage Festival. When Nick and Joe book their gag strongman routine on unsuspecting morning news shows, their pranks go viral and land them in federal court with a vengeful media conglomerate. The stress of the lawsuit and pressure to continue their pranks threatens their livelihood and tests their lifelong friendship.
Using testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the media generated – with far-fetched examples of canine television games, seduction manuals, aerobics class while holding a baby, among others.
This lively documentary explores the rise and fall of physical media from the origin of film all the way through the video store era into digital media, focusing on B-movie and cult films. With icons like Joe Bob Briggs (MonsterVision), Lloyd Kaufman (Toxic Avenger), Greg Sestero (The Room), Debbie Rochon (Return to Nuke 'Em High), Deborah Reed (Troll 2), Mark Frazer (Samurai Cop), James Nguyen (Birdemic) and many others.
A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.
This years festival includes a pet care public access show, Linda Blair with some really bad advice for all and of course, more full frontal male nudity.
Founded in 2004, the Festival originated in Wisconsin and Minnesota by Joe Pickett, Nick Prueher and Geoff Haas, childhood friends from Wisconsin. While still in high school, Pickett and Prueher began collecting videos from garage sales, training videos from odd jobs, and copies of tapes from a video production house. The friends would then play selections from this collection for entertainment at parties. In 2004, Pickett and Prueher quit their day jobs to focus on production of their first feature documentary, Dirty Country. They started the touring Found Footage Festival show to fund the production of the documentary. In addition to its regular touring schedule, the Festival has appeared at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival, Just For Laughs (the Montreal comedy festival), the New York Comedy Festival, the Impakt Festival in the Netherlands, and the Central Standard Film Festival in Minneapolis, MN. The Festival is currently based out of New York City.
In this memorable show recorded live on Good Friday in Brooklyn, New York, Found Footage Festival hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher serve up an eclectic lineup of obscure promotional tapes, industrial videos and found home movies that were never intended for a mass audience.
Larry Pierce is a family man and factory worker who lives in Middletown, Indiana with his wife Sandy. Outside of his regular nine-to-five job, Pierce has also been writing and recording raunchy country albums since 1994. After being forced to retire from his job after thirty-one years, the 53-year-old Pierce hooks up with the rock group -itis and performs his first concert in front of a live audience.
Join curators Joe and Nick on a guided tour through their ever-growing collection of odd, hilarious, and profoundly stupid videos. This edition of the Found Footage Festival features an entertaining lineup of instructional and educational videos, public access footage, and home movies found at thrift stores and rescued from dumpsters across the country. Recorded live at The Heights Theater in Minnesota, Found Footage Festival: Volume 2 is an unabashed celebration of the footage that time forgot.
In their most unsettling compilation to date, Found Footage Festival curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher present their latest and greatest array of VHS wonders. Didgeridoos will be blown, sponges will be rainbowed, opossums will be massaged, and senior citizens will be fed salad. It's all here! Recorded live at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago.
Hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher present an all-new collection of unintentionally hilarious videos found at thrift stores and garage sales across the country. From pool hustlers to public access TV weirdos, from exercising celebrities to toilet training cats, Found Footage Festival: Volume 3 puts them all on display in a loving tribute to the golden age of VHS. Recorded live at the Red Vic Movie House in San Francisco.
Big news for perverts! Found Footage Festival: After Dark features some of the naughtiest, most unsettling footage we've turned up in our 30 years of collecting, Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, this is a show we hope our parents don't see. You, however, are welcome to give it a whirl!
Joe and Nick are proud to present a new series called Buried Treasures, a guided tour through the VHS finds they've deemed too weird to include in their live show along with hand-picked deep cuts from the Found Footage Festival archives. This first volume, Strange Men, includes dozens of video clips, each with a strange man doing a strange thing. One man jumps around his living room. Another man interviews cheerleaders. There's even a man with a ponytail! There are so many strange men crammed in this collection, you'll think you're at an O.T.B.
This special 10th anniversary edition of the Found Footage Festival finds curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher in a nostalgic mood, delving deeper--perhaps too deep--into some of their favorite VHS finds from over years. But Volume 7 is also jam packed with newly unearthed treasures, featuring singing rabbis, petulant news anchors, coughing snake handlers, bodybuilding clowns, and two body parts never before seen in the festival! It's a celebration of a decade of Found. Record over and you'll die! Taped live at The Grey Eagle in Asheville, North Carolina.
The FFF celebrates its 15th anniversary with an all-new melange of delightfully awkward VHS footage salvaged from thrift stores by hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher. Regional pre-teen beauty pageants, big-budget Vietnamese karaoke videos, altar boy training tapes, a home movie labelled "bonion sergery," and Pudgie Wudgie the Wondercat all get their place in the sun. Plus, for the first time, Joe and Nick tell the definitive story behind their local morning news prank journey, including the humiliating footage from their legal depositions after getting sued in federal court. It's a cringe-worthy celebration you won't want to miss. Recorded live at The North Door in Austin, TX.
From nose-picking news anchors to piano-playing rabbits, from accident-prone factory workers to speedo-wearing dancers, from rentable friends to butt campers, this sparking collection of Found Footage Festival's most cherished VHS finds has it all! Recorded live at Music Box Theatre in Chicago. Plus, enjoy new where-are-they-now updates on these unsung heroes of the videotape era and exclusive footage from Joe and Nick's courtroom depositions for the Chop & Steele lawsuit.
Ringleaders Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (Late Show) are back with an all-new live show featuring their latest and greatest VHS finds, including an instructional video about putting on clown makeup, highlights from a 1991 Cabbage Patch Kids convention, and a pig training tape called "Hoggin'."
Join us, brothers and sisters, for a 90-minute VHS revival hosted by the Found Footage Trio: Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (Late Show). Like the lord himself, these holy messengers emerge from their video-strewn cave in Brooklyn to resurrect their latest and greatest finds in a joyous analog celebration. You’ll see not one but two bigfoot videos. Can I get an amen? You’ll see cowboy butts in tight Wranglers. Testify! You’ll see a crafting guru paint a fish’s eyeball to make a pretty towel. Hallelujah, these VHS tapes are born again!
