One man’s trash is another man’s Found Footage Festival. As bored high school students in Wisconsin, Joe Picket and Nick Prueher began searching local garage sales for “buried treasures,” in the form of home videos.  Starting in 2004 the duo began turning their collection into a live comedy tour, which is set to come to Higher Ground March 23. “In the ’80s and ’90s anyone with a pulse could put out a video even if they had no business doing so,” Prueher said.  This ease of amateur video production is what inspired them to start the Found Footage Festival. “When there was nothing going on, which was most of the time, we’d have friends over, watch videos and make jokes,” Prueher said.  This is the experience the duo said they aim to produce with their live shows. “The thing it recreates is sitting around in a living room popping in someone’s weird videos,” Prueher said.  To accomplish this, Picket and Prueher said they use an “informal approach” to introduce themselves and the story behind each find. “It’s like a guided tour for our video collection,” Prueher said. “We’re going to be watching some really weird videos.” Once they started touring, Picket and Prueher were able to hit garage sales and thrift stores on the road.  “By touring we sustain the show by finding enough footage for next year,” Prueher said.  Following last year’s tour, Prueher and Picket collected over 1200 videos.  The difficult part, they said, is sorting through the footage once they have found it.  “It’s very much locking yourself in someone’s apartment with energy drinks and potato chips, holding hands and trying to get through it together,” Prueher said.  Looking past the junk videos and junk food binges they said they find reassurance in their results.  “You find something so great that you can’t wait to show people and you remember why you do it,” Prueher said.  See the Found Footage Festival at Higher Ground March 23 at 8 p.m.