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Found film fest finds way to Neon
Why let Hollywood moguls with big marketing budgets decide what you see?
Why not turn that decision over to a couple of garage sale denizens with no health insurance?
The fifth annual Found Footage Festival, a local premiere, will be the unconventional attraction at 10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, at the Neon Movies.
It will feature castoff, forgotten and discarded VHS cassettes and films two guys have found in dumpsters and thrift stores.
Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher will introduce their odd and often unintentionally hilarious finds and do some comic bits in between.
The two were students when they started their collection in 1991, when they would show their finds for friends in their parents’ living rooms or college dorm rooms.
Showings have moved to movie houses with bigger audiences, but the routine remains the same on a nine-month, 100-screening tour of North America.
“We had no idea there would be such a demand for accidental material,” Prueher said. “We were in Paris two years ago showing our collection and it really hit us. Why are all of these people who barely speak English enjoying this?”
They have theories as to why. “It’s almost like there’s an appeal to looking at stuff that wasn’t meant to be shown in public. It’s a bit subversive, not that we are. We’re just trying to make people laugh.”
Their ever-evolving collection features pieces like a 1987 video-dating reel, a home movie donated to Goodwill, an industrial training video, a collection of bad Saturday morning cartoons and a demo of “facial aerobics.”
“You have to wonder: Why was this deemed important enough to commit to video?” Prueher said.
For information, or samples of what to expect, check out their website, www.foundfootagefest.com/videos.
how to go
What: “Found Footage Festival.”
When: 10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19.
Where: Neon Movies, 130 E. Fifth St.
Tickets: $10.
Call: (937) 222-7469.
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