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Festival of (In)Appropriation #10 (Encore) [Online]
Fri Jun 12: 6.00pm PDT - Sun Jun 14 11:59pm PDT
** BLACK LIVES MATTER. In recognition of the importance of the current moment, NWFF is donating ALL PROCEEDS from our June film screenings to organizations that empower the Black community, including Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County, Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network, Lavender Rights Projects WA Black Trans Task Force, and Rainier Valley Community Clinic. Learn more about this initiative here: bit.ly/nwffblm or donate directly to NWFF: nwfilmforum.org/donate. **
About
** Co-curators Jaimie Baron and Lauren Berliner will be joined by Adam Hyman of LA Filmforum to host a Zoom Q&A with filmmakers Jennifer Proctor, Phoebe Tooke, and Penny Lane on June 13 at 5pm PDT. We will send all registrants a link to join the Zoom that day! A recording of the conversation will accompany remaining screenings. **
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. This year marks the culmination of the Festivals first decade, with a program that ranges from militant political documentary, uncanny TV supercuts, and raucous re-mix juggernauts, to quasi-DIY orphan film animations, haunting YouTube mash-ups oozing with existential teen angst, and a brooding digital experiment performed upon a single, black-and-white, still photograph.
The Program:
Identity Parade
by Gerard Freixes Ribera
(Spain, digital video, b/w, sound, 2017, 4:18)
Drew has escaped and is stalking Melinda, but who is hiding behind the mask? Film made by remixing and manipulating archival footage. (Gerard Freixes Ribera)
Nothing a Little Soap and Water Cant Fix
by Jennifer Proctor
(USA, digital video, color, sound, 2017, 9:15)
In films, as in life, the bathtub is often considered a private space for women a place not only to groom, but to relax, to think, to grieve, to be alone, to find sanctuary. For Hollywood, though, its also a place of naked vulnerability, where women narratively placed in harms way have no escape. Using appropriated movies, this experimental found footage work deconstructs the representations of women in this domestic space as historically framed in popular film. (Jennifer Proctor)
Acting Erratically
by Tuff Guts, Hazel Katz, Daniel Goodman
(USA, HD video, color, sound, 2018, 15:08)
Acting erratically is a term typically used by law enforcement when they believe they are encountering someone experiencing mental distress. This short film explores the connections between freedom of movement and state sanctioned violence in the lives of NYC-based women and gender-non-conforming people of color by critically engaging with the archive and using found footage as metaphorical architecture. A narrative of resistance is explored through the first person by Mecca, who re-appropriates the idea of Acting Erratically as a powerful and performative response to systemic oppression and police violence. This film was made collaboratively with members of Picture The Homeless and Black Youth Project 100 (NYC Chapter). (Tuff Guts, et. al.)
Normal Appearances
by Penny Lane
(USA, HD video, color, sound, 2018, 5:00)
Women watch themselves being looked at. John Berger
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by Anna Malina Zemlianski
(Germany, digital video, sound, color, 2018, 2:21)
This is a found footage animation film. Its made from approximately 770 laser printed film stills, which were manipulated by handdrawn upon with pastels and charcoal, torn and collagedand then scanned and put together into an animation. The film stills were taken from Niklaus Schillings Nachtschatten (1972). (Anna Malina Zemlianski)
Only the Dead
by Aaron Valdez
(USA, digital video, color, sound, 2016, 3:45)
A supercut of televisions The First 48. (Aaron Valdez)
derivation of the mean lifetime
by Phoebe Tooke
(USA, digital video, b/w, sound, 2015, 8:40)
A poetic contemplation of the rate of decay and extinction. With subtle and meditative gestures, this film transforms from a still image into a blank canvas. (Phoebe Tooke)
Drive with Persephone
by Mille Feuille
(Canada, HD video, color, sound, 2018, 10:30)
The ancient myth of Persephones abduction retold through drive with me YouTube Vlogs. (Mille Feuille)
Sand
by Brice Bowman
(USA, 8mm transferred to digital video, color, sound, 2015, 8:48)
In Brice Bowmans film Sand, the principal issues are the manner and persistence of the sociological collective unconscious being forwarded through time by way of the surviving generations which survive as personal contributions to the collective unconscious. (Brice Bowman)
The Was
by Soda_Jerk
(Australia, HD video, color, sound, 2016, 13:40)
A sample-based video for now, about the time before now. Part experimental film, part music video and concept album, The Was is the collaborative meeting of Australian sample artists Soda_Jerk and The Avalanches. Constructed from over a hundred rotoscoped film samples, The Was is a de/tour de force through the neighborhoods of collective memory.
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