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Los Angeles Filmforum invites film and videomakers t
CALL FOR ENTRIES!

Los Angeles Filmforum invites film and videomakers to take part in the 2011 
FESTIVAL OF (IN)APPROPRIATION.

WHO: All film and videomakers

WHAT: Call for entries for the Festival of (In)appropriation 2011
WHEN: Entries must be received by May 15, 2011 
WHERE: Send submissions to Jaimie Baron, 950 Edgecliffe Dr. #5, Los Angeles, CA 
90026 
PRESENTED BY:  Los Angeles Filmforum
CONTACT: Jaimie Baron: [log in to unmask]

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.

With that idea in mind, Los Angeles Filmforum invites submissions for the 2011 
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 2009 or later. 

The Festival of (In)appropriation will take place at Los Angeles Filmforum in 
Fall 2011, specific date TBA.
Curated by Jaimie Baron, Lauren Berliner, and Andrew Hall.

Guidelines:
•    Submission deadline: May 15, 2011
•    Please download and fill out the Submission Form on our website and send 
with your submission in DVD format to: Jaimie Baron, 950 Edgecliffe      Dr. #5, 
Los Angeles, CA 90026
•    Submissions must be 20 minutes or less and must contain some form of 
appropriation.
•    Acceptable submission formats: DVD
•    Acceptable exhibition formats: mini-DV, DV-Cam, 16mm film, 35mm film, DVD 
(but discouraged, since DVD is not a reliable projection medium), Quicktime .mov 
file.
•    No submission fee. 

For more information on the festival, please go 
to: http://festivalofinappropriation.org  

Los Angeles Filmforum is the city's longest-running organization dedicated to 
weekly screenings of experimental film and video art, documentaries, and 
experimental animation. For more information, please go 
to: http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 



      

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