One man's trash is another man's treasure.
From cheesy 80's promotional videos for restaurants like Chick Fil A (pictured at right) to 17 sexual harassment training videos pared down to a "Best of" montage of reenactments and a music video made by a couple of wrestlers who call themselves the Fabulous Ones, the Found Footage Festival is a national tour showcasing the weirdest videos scraped off the floors of restaurants and only the highest-quality thrift stores and garage sales.
The videos have a "so bad it's good" quality to them. The washed-out color and VHS quality gives the footage a kind of public-access TV charm. The humor is mostly unintentional like the seriousness and earnestness of sexual harassment reenactments and also there's "Murder She Wrote" star Angela Lansbury in her skivvies.
The minds behind the festival are Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett, whose writing credits include the Late Show with David Letterman, reputable stalwarts of internet journalism the Onion and conservative savior The Colbert Report.
With video contributions from David Cross (Mr. Show with Bob and David) and Chris Elliott (Saturday Night Live),
The pair will take their show on the road to Dallas' Lakewood Theater on Friday May 8th at 8 p.m. Tickets are ten bucks and I'm sure it would be worth it just to see the instructional video on how to toilet-train cats (it's funny and informative too!).
For more info, check out the website at www.foundfootagefestival.com
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