LA Filmforum: The Festival of (In)appropriation #14

Los Angeles Filmforum presents *The Festival of (In)appropriation #14.* Curators Jaimie Baron and Jennifer Proctor in person! World premiere! Full program and notes at: https://www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/summer-fall-2026/the-festival-of-inappropriation-14/ ~ 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 astonishing 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 databases 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. Sponsored by Los Angeles Filmforum, the Festival of (In)appropriation strives to evince the remarkable range, sophistication, and critical impact of this vital aesthetic practice. ~ Jaimie Baron (Festival Director) is a teacher, writer, curator, and theorist. Her work on documentary, experimental film and video, audiovisual appropriation, and digital media has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. She is the author of The Archive Effect: FoundFootage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (2014) and Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era (2020). She is also a Contributing Editor of Millenium Film Journal. She currently teaches Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Jennifer Proctor (Curator) is an award-winning found footage filmmaker and scholar whose experimental work deconstructs intersectional representations of gender in mainstream media. She is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Production at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and co-founder and director of EDIT Media (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Teaching Media). Her films have been featured in such venues as Anthology Film Archives, Edinburgh Film Festival, Rotterdam, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Festival of (in)Appropriation, and more. Her essays have appeared in journals including Screen, Jump Cut, and \[in\]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies. She is the former director of the Austin Cinemaker Co-op and managing director of the Cinematexas Film Festival and currently sits on the advisory board of the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Presented by LA Filmforum This is an 18+ event