Festival of (In)appropriation

Founded in 2009, the Festival of (In)appropriation is a preeminent international showcase for experimental, found-media film and video. Every year, the Festival attracts artists working across an array of moving-image formats while probing the limits of collage, machinima, re-mix, détournement, mash-up, and more. The raw material for their work derives from the abundant new sources of audiovisual media to have surfaced in recent decades, from official state and commercial archives to vernacular collections, home movie repositories, and digital archives of every stripe. By exploiting and refashioning these pre-existing materials, such creations generate novel juxtapositions and recombinations, often producing ideas and meanings that were unintended or unimagined by the original makers. These remarkable works, in other words, are “inappropriate” in the profoundest sense of the term.

Curated annually by Jaimie Baron, Lauren Berliner, and Greg Cohen, the Festival of (In)appropriation strives to evince the astonishing range, sophistication, and critical impact of this vital aesthetic practice.

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    Since its inauguration in 2009, the Festival of (In)appropriation has emerged as a premiere international showcase of experimental found footage film and video, attracting the work of artists who probe the limits of collage, machinima, remix, détournement, mash-up and more.

    Co-curated by Jaimie Baron, Lauren Berliner, and Greg Cohen, and sponsored by Los Angeles Filmforum, the Festival of (In)appropriation now invites submissions for its 5th edition, to take place in Los Angeles in November 2013.

    Filmmakers and artists engaged in the appropriation, re-purposing, and productive "mis-use" of existing visual and sonic media are encouraged to send us their work for consideration. All entries must include some form of inventive (in)appropriation, whether of existing/archival film or video footage, sound recordings, still imagery, or digital media. The most competitive submissions are those which seek to produce revelations and reconsiderations of the relationship between past and present, here and there, truth and lie, intention and subversion.

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  • Festival of (In)appropriation 2012

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    Deadline: May 15,2012

    Los Angeles Filmforum invites film and videomakers to take part in the 2012 Festival of (In)appropriation.

    From collage to hip-hop, remix to mash-up, détournement to machinima, the appropriation of preexisting sounds and images has become integral to the creation of new and provocative works of art –all the more so in the digital era. Artists from diverse backgrounds are taking “found” sounds and images and appropriating them into new works that fundamentally alter the meaning and function of these found objects.

    The Festival of (In)appropriation, now in its fourth year, plays on the notion of what an “appropriate” use of a found sound and/or image may be. Since what is considered appropriate always depends on context –being in the “right” place at the “right” time –appropriation is by definition the art of the inappropriate –being in the “wrong” place at the “wrong” time. Indeed, every reuse is, in some way, a productive misuse –a misuse that we celebrate! When films and videos tear materials from one (con)text and place them in another, they question the limits of what is “appropriate” and thereby open the doors to new ways of seeing, hearing, and thinking. At its best, this act of (in)appropriation may produce revelation that leads viewers to reconsider the relationship between past and present, here and there, truth and lie, intention and subversion.

    With that idea in mind, Los Angeles Filmforum invites submissions for the 2012 Festival of (In)appropriation! We are open to all works that appropriate film or video footage and repurpose it in inventive ways. We will consider both films and videos, including works that are made up entirely of found footage and those that only use small segments of appropriated material. However, we will only accept films that include some form of appropriation, that are under 20 minutes long, and that were finished in 2010 or later.

    The Festival of (In)appropriation will take place at Los Angeles Filmforum in Fall 2012, specific date TBA.
    Curated by Jaimie Baron, Lauren Berliner, and Andrew Hall.

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  • 2011 Festival of (In)appropriation

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    Los Angeles Filmforum invites film and videomakers to take part in the 2011 Festival of (In)appropriation.  Please read all the details below.

    From collage to hip-hop, remix to mash-up, détournement to machinima, the appropriation of preexisting sounds and images has become integral to the creation of new and provocative works of art ? all the more so in the digital era. Artists from diverse backgrounds are taking "found" sounds and images and appropriating them into new works that fundamentally alter the meaning and function of these found objects. The Festival of (In)appropriation, now in its third year, plays on the notion of what an "appropriate" use of a found sound and/or image may be. Since what is considered appropriate always depends on context ? being in the "right" place at the "right" time ? appropriation is by definition the art of the inappropriate ? being in the "wrong" place at the "wrong" time. Indeed, every reuse is, in some way, a productive misuse ? a misuse that we celebrate! When films and videos tear materials from one (con)text and place them in another, they question the limits of what is "appropriate" and thereby open the doors to new ways of seeing, hearing, and thinking. At its best, this act of (in)appropriation may produce revelation that leads viewers to reconsider the relationship between past and present, here and there, truth and lie, intention and subversion.

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  • Festival of (In)appropriation 2010

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    Los Angeles Filmforum invites film and videomakers to take part in the 2010 Festival Of (In)appropriation.

    WHO: All film and videomakers
    WHAT: Call for entries for the Festival of (In)appropriation
    WHEN: Entries must be received by May 15, 2010.
    WHERE: Send submissions to Jaimie Baron, 10480 National Blvd. #308, Los
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    PRESENTED BY: Los Angeles Filmforum

    Santa suit in July? Brussel sprouts for breakfast? Cat in the bathtub? Fish on a bicycle? All of these things are possible, but they are just "not done." At least, in our view, not often enough! Of course, the notion of what is "appropriate" always depends on context – the right time and the right place. What is permissible in one context may not be so in another. Indeed, the "inappropriate" is all about what is in the "wrong" place and at the "wrong" time, which is exactly where we think it should be. Mash-up, machinima, remix, collage, compilation, found footage, détournement – these terms all refer to films and videos that tear materials from one (con)text and place them in another, constantly questioning the limits of what is "appropriate. " At its best, this act of (in)appropriation may produce revelation that leads viewers to reconsider the relationship between past and present, here and there, truth and lie, intention and subversion.

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