FILM: Found Footage Festival | Porcelain VHS Treasures

The Found Footage Festival, the touring showcase of odd and hilarious videos salvaged from forgotten VHS tapes, returns with an all-new show on Friday, March 13 at Le Mondo. Hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher will debut their latest VHS discoveries and share exclusive updates and interviews with the people featured in them as part of Found Footage Festival: Volume 11.

The Found Footage Festival is a one-of-a-kind celebration of VHS oddities—unearthed from dusty thrift stores, garage sales, and estate cleanouts across North America. Longtime friends Pickett and Prueher provide live commentary and “where-are-they-now” updates on their strangest finds, turning forgotten tapes into unforgettable comedy.

Highlights from Volume 11 include:

• A psychotic dollar store salesman

• A video catalog of frightening porcelain dolls

• Two wonderfully homemade Bigfoot videos

• A new age “miracle” treatment from the 80s called “Psychic Surgery”

Doors at 7:30 pm

Show at 8:00 pm

$15 Adv ($20)

ABOUT FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL

Debuting in 2004 in New York City, the Found Footage Festival has since sold out hundreds of shows across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., including appearances at the Just For Laughs Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, and Bonnaroo.

The show has been featured on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and NPR, and has been praised by critics in The Guardian and The New York Times.

Fans can also catch Pickett and Prueher in their weekly YouTube series VCR Party Live! and the hit Tribeca documentary Chop & Steele, now available on Blu-ray and VOD.

ABOUT YOUR HOSTS

Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher began collecting found videotapes in 1991 after discovering a McDonald’s training video titled Inside and Outside Custodial Duties in their hometown of Wisconsin. Since then, they’ve compiled one of the world’s largest collections of strange, outrageous, and profoundly stupid VHS tapes.

Pickett, a contributor for The Onion, and Prueher, a veteran of The Colbert Report and The Late Show with David Letterman, also directed the award-winning documentary Dirty Country and host the weekly show VCR Party Live!.

They are the prank masterminds behind viral characters like Kenny “K-Strass” Strasser, Chef Keith, and Chop & Steele, whose morning-show appearances have racked up millions of YouTube views. Their comedic antics even led to a federal lawsuit—dubbed by Fast Company “the dumbest First Amendment battle of the year.”