9-7-12: Found Footage Festival

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If you’re looking for humor on film, you don’t necessarily have to look to Hollywood. (In fact, that seems like a worse idea year after year.)

Some of the funniest stuff is on VHS tapes at garage sales and thrift stores. This isn’t amateur goofing around like you see on America’s Funniest Home Videos. This is earnestly produced stuff, like “Dancing with Frank Pacholski,” and “Let’s Have Fun at the Slush Puppie Factory,” and Marc “Animal” MacYoung’s video bar brawling tutorial.

On Sunday, the Found Footage Festival brings a big box full of unintentionally hilarious VHS to the Creative Alliance in Southeast Baltimore. Nick Preuher is one of the festival’s founders. He tells Nathan Sterner how many hours of bad video he has to sit through to find something so bad it's good.

Sunday, September 9, 7:30 p.m.
$10, $5 for members
Creative Alliance
3134 Eastern Ave.
Baltimore MD 21224