INTERVIEW: Nick Prueher of the Found Footage Festival
Imagine what kind of gems you could unearth if you spent an afternoon digging through the video collection at a thrift store. Instructional aerobics from the 1980s? Battered VHS copies of local cable access television shows? Home videos, starring the most spectacularly mustached men you could imagine?
Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett, co-creators, co-curators, and hosts of the Found Footage Festival, have spent many an afternoon elbows-deep in such thrift-store video bins, and the fruits of their labor are screened, for a live audience, at shows around the country. Sometimes awkward, always hilarious, this “found footage” serves as an authentic historical marker of consumer, health, educational, and fashion trends from the past several decades. And damn. People were funny.
[The Found Footage Festival is currently on tour! Click here to see when it hits your city!]
Rooftop spoke to Nick about his favorite types of clips, those dadgum Internets, and the magic of the movies.
November 4th, 2009
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