The Found Footage Festival is taking over Galapagos in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this Friday evening, March 25. I’m going to do my best to make it out there, because these guys clearly have some gems in their collection. Here’s the description posted on the Galapagos site:

The Found Footage Festival is a one-of-a-kind event that compiles over an hour’s worth of footage from videotapes that were found at garage sales and thrift stores, and in warehouses and trash bins throughout the country. … From the curiously produced industrial training video to the forsaken home movie donated to Goodwill, the Found Footage Festival resurrects these forgotten treasures and serves them up in a lively 90-minute celebration of all things found.

Among the new clips to be featured in the March 25th show:
-A preview for a VCR game about robots
-Homemade music videos by a middle-aged suburban woman from Illinois
-Outtakes from a pet-of-the-week segment on a local newscast
-A self-important video diary by one-time teen heartthrob Corey Haim

The FFF’s website has a five- or six-minute video preview of the sorts of things they’ll be showing. The preview contains a short excerpt from the Citizen Kane of underground video: the so-called Winnebago Man tape. Dating back to roughly the late ’80s or early ’90s, the Winnebago Man tape is an assemblage of outtakes from a promotional film for recreational vehicles. The host is having a really, really bad day, and every time he blows a line, which happens often, he lets loose with a stream of curses in his mellifluous, radio-ready voice. The amazingness of the Winnebago Man tape can’t really be captured in a brief excerpt—the sheer avalanche of invective is what makes it great. A fairly good copy of the entire video can be found here.