Friday, August 5th, 2005
8:30 - Live music by Tamarind
9:00 - Hysterical detritus from the video revolution
Click below to watch the trailer!
On the lawn at Automotive High School
50 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Dress warmly (it's cooler when you're sitting still).
In the event of rain the show is indoors at the same location.
The Found Footage Festival makes its triumphant return to New York next month with another installment of live comedy and odd clips from videotapes found in thrift stores, garage sales, and in warehouses and dumpsters throughout the country. Guest curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher will host the screening and provide their unique observations and commentary on these found video obscurities. The boys from the FFF have hundreds of bizarre clips and this time around they will be featuring a number of newly rediscovered videos to go along with classics like Carnival in Rio, featuring Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on an early 80s debauched bender in Brazil, and It Only Takes a Second, an infinitely creative compilation of vividly reenacted industrial accidents put together by the funny guys at the Federated Mutual Insurance Company. The Found Footage Festival resurrects these forgotten treasures and serves them up in an entertaining 90-minute celebration of all things found.
The Found Footage Festival has been named a Critics¥ Pick in dozens of publications, including The Onion, Time Out New York and The Chicago Tribune, and was recently the subject of a two-page feature in Punk Planet magazine. Online independent film magazine Film Threat gave the show a 5-star review (out of five), touting it as "true underground cinema." "If you want to see something truly different and disturbing," reviewer Eric Campos wrote, "the Found Footage Festival has what you're looking for en masse.
This will be the last chance to catch the show in New York before the curators depart for an extended West Coast tour in September.
FILMS INCLUDE:
Carnival in Rio (Brazilian Travel Board, 1983)
Find out what happens when a producer hires a couple of Brazilian escorts for a young and frisky Arnold Schwarzenegger and lets him go nuts in Rio de Janeiro. This travel video was found at a Salvation Army in New York.
The Harvey Sid Fisher Zodiac Collection (Harvey Sid Fisher, 1989)
In this self-released collection of music videos, a tuxedoed man named Harvey Sid Fisher sings self-penned songs about all twelve signs of the Zodiac. This will be a Found Footage Festival premiere.
It Only Takes A Second (Federated Mutual Insurance Company, 1996)
This Found Footage Festival selection was found at a video duplication company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was released by the Federated Mutual Insurance Company with the intention of scaring people into being safe.
John & Johnny (America's Value Network, 1982)
In this video found in a warehouse in Wisconsin, two obnoxious home shopping hosts hawk merchandise on America's Value Network.
Jack Rebney (1990)
A collection of outtakes featuring the foul-mouthed host of a promotional video about Winnebago recreation vehicles.
Potpourri (Various Artists)
This infamous collection of three unrelated but equally horrifying videos will make its unwelcome return to the Found Footage Festival this summer.
Memorial Day 2000 (Unknown Drunken Hooligans, 2000)
This home movie was found at a garage sale in Western Michigan and documents a holiday weekend of drunken debauchery.
Wendy's Grill Skill (Wendy's, 1989)
This training video for the Wendy's restaurant chain teaches employees how to cook burgers with the help of a magical rapping crew trainer.
Exercise Video Montage #2 (Various Exercising Celebrities)
By popular demand, the Found Footage Festival curators will debut this all-new collection of exercise videos, this time featuring celebrities like Ed Asner, Angela Lansbury and Patrick Swayze.
