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When VHS was abandoned in favor of DVDs, home videos and second rate tapes were digitized, sold off or thrown away altogether. But these relics didn’t just disappear. Part VHS nostalgia, part pop culture horror, the Found Footage Festival features a collection of these YouTube rejects of yesteryear, scrabbled together from videos found in thrift stores, warehouses and dumpsters. The festival is making a stop at the Texas Theatre on its massive 75 city tour throughout the U.S. and Canada. The screening will include clips old and new, including self-hypnosis videos, compilations of exercise videos featuring the American Gladiators, and a collection of horrifying ventriloquism how-tos. Curators Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett present this cavalcade of quirky and unsettling clips while providing commentary and insight. Following the event is a special 25th anniversary screening of the bootleg documentary and cult classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Videotaped by self-described guerilla filmmakers John Heyn and Jeff Krulik at a Maryland arena parking lot before a Judas Priest concert, Heavy Metal Parking Lot features interviews with the biggest collection of drugged up, zoned out metalheads ever set to tape. Catch it all 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Texas Theatre, 231 W. Jefferson Blvd. Tickets are $10. Call 214-948-1546 or visit foundfootagefest.com.
Thu., March 31, 7:30 p.m., 2011
