Festival of (In)Appropriation #11 with Festival Director Jaimie Baron

Copy of the event details (reproduced in the OP) over a photo of the bottom half of two people. One is wearing a pink knee length skirt and the other is wearing jeans.

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1102 Cruess Hall

The Department of Cinema & Digital Media is proud to host the 11th installment of the Festival of (In)Appropriation with an Introduction and Q&A by Festival Director Jaimie Baron, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta. In order to adhere to campus protocols for event size, attendees should register for a (free) ticket at the link below.

 

When:   March 10th, 6:00-8:00pm
Where: 1102 Cruess Hall
Tickets: https://bit.ly/ucdfestival

 

About the Festival: Collage or compilation. Found footage film or recycled cinema. Remix or détournement. Whatever one might call it, the practice of incorporating preexistent media into new artworks engenders novel juxtapositions, new ideas, and latent connotations… often entirely unrelated to the intentions of the original makers. In that regard, such works are truly “inappropriate.” Indeed, the act of (in)appropriation can reveal unimagined relationships between past and present, here and there, intention and subversion, artist and critic, and perhaps even compel us to reexamine what it means to be the "producer" or "consumer" of visual culture itself. Fortunately for our purposes, the past decades have witnessed the emergence of countless new kinds of audiovisual material available for artistic (in)appropriation. In addition to official state and commercial archives, resources like vernacular collections, home movie repositories, and digital archives now provide the artist with a wealth of fascinating matter to reprocess, repurpose, and endow with new meaning and resonance.

Founded in 2009 and curated by Jaimie Baron, Greg Cohen, and Lauren Berliner, the Festival of (In)appropriation is a yearly showcase of contemporary, short-form, audiovisual works that appropriate existing film, video, or other media and redeploy them in “inappropriate” and inventive ways. The Festival’s 11th edition gathers a self-reflexive experimental biopic, a surreal Frankenstein collage animation, a YouTube-sourced musical supercut, a queer reframing of Mexican and Hollywood films, an acousmatic exploration of online beauty standards, a canine-based critique of capitalism, a playful quantum animation of old 16mm film, an interrogation of the dismantling of the major opposition newspaper in Hungary, a deconstruction of our popular culture obsession with female corpses, and a performative rejection of the gender politics of a cult film.

With generous support from the Department of Cinema & Digital Media

PLEASE NOTE: This event will follow all campus protocols for COVID-19, including mandatory masking, symptom survey and occupancy limitations.

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