Fans of Austinite Ben Steinbauer’s Winnebago Man will recognize hosts (and founders) of the traveling Found Footage Festival Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher as the guys behind the California FFF screening of Jack Rebney’s infamous Winnebago commercial outtakes (a viral sensation that earned the onetime actor the title of “The World’s Angriest Man”) – a screening that turned out to be a redemptive, even triumphant evening for Rebney, who was in attendance.
Of course, most of the footage screened at FFF isn’t gonna make anybody feel warm and fuzzy – not unless you get sentimental over cable access and Eighties workout videos – but there is some very funny stuff to be seen. Prueher says there’s a local angle to this year’s lineup, too – a clip from Austin public access TV show Citizens Live, “a call-in show from the 1990s in which the husband and wife hosts are bombarded by a series of prank calls.”
The show takes place Sunday night (5/10) at 7:30pm at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. Buy tickets here.
This article appears in May 8 • 2009.
