“Lying Women” by Deborah Kelly is one of the films featured in the festival. (photo courtesy of Los Angeles Filmforum)

Los Angeles Filmforum and Northwest Film Forum present the “Festival of (In)Appropriation #9” running online from Friday, Aug. 21, through Sunday, Aug. 23. Whether it’s collage, compilation, found footage, detournement or recycled cinema, the incorporation of already existing media into new artworks is a practice that generates novel juxtapositions and new meanings and ideas. Over the past decade, a wealth of new audiovisual elements have emerged for appropriation into new works. In addition to official state and commercial archives, resources like vernacular collections, home movie repositories and digital archives provide material to repurpose in ways that create new meaning and resonance.

Founded in 2009 and curated by Jaimie Baron, Lauren Berliner and Greg Cohen, the “Festival of (In)appropriation” is a yearly showcase of contemporary, short (20 minutes or less) audiovisual works that appropriate existing film, video or other media, and repurpose it in “inappropriate” and inventive ways. This year’s program features a variety of moving-image appropriation art, including a YouTube reaction video mash-up, an exquisite found-footage ready-made feature, a queer-Asian-American homage to Hollis Frampton, several sublime works of cut-out animation and a pseudo-documentary about the lost work of an early-Soviet scientist dedicated to the exploration of human mental projection.

An online Q&A session will be held on Saturday, Aug. 22, at 6 p.m. with curators Baron, Berliner and Cohen, and filmmakers Roger Beebe, L.J. Frezza, Tony Gault, Deborah Kelly, Kevin McCarthy, Ryan Murphy, Tasman Richardson, Tina Takemoto and Yunjin Woo.

For information, call (323)377-7238, or visit lafilmforum.org.