Found Footage Festival: Vol. 10

Friday, April 28, 2023

Presented by ICFS

The Found Footage Festival is a celebration of the videos that time forgot, dredged up in dusty thrift stores and estate sales throughout North America. Childhood friends Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (Late Show) take audiences on a guided tour of their latest and greatest VHS finds, providing commentary and where-are-they-now updates on the people in these videotaped obscurities in their live tour and their weekly YouTube show, VCR Party Live!

Pickett and Prueher began collecting found videotapes in 1991 after stumbling across a training video entitled, “Inside and Outside Custodial Duties,” at a McDonald’s in their home state of Wisconsin. Since then, they have compiled the world’s largest collection of strange, outrageous and profoundly stupid videos.

The Found Footage Festival live show debuted in New York City in 2004 and has gone on to sell out hundreds of live shows each year across the U.S., Canada and the UK, including the Just For Laughs Festival, Edinburgh Fringe and Bonnaroo. It has been featured on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” and National Public Radio and has been named a critics’ pick in “The Guardian” and “The New York Times.”

Highlights include:

-A Moose Lodge recruitment video from 1992
-A montage of Pizza Hut training tapes being tossed out at Nick’s hometown location
-The souvenir video from a 1990 Cabbage Patch Kids fan convention
-A mysterious New Age video called “Elimination: The First Step”

-and so VERY much more!

As with other ICFS events, expect prizes, surprises, a convenient bar and comfy sofas.

Mature content. Not for children. 120 minutes

Location: GE Theatre

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