The (In)appropriators!

Jaimie Baron (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 co-founder of Docalogue, an online space for scholars and filmmakers to engage in conversations about contemporary documentary. She currently teaches Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Lauren S. Berliner (Associate Director) is an Associate Professor of Media & Communication and Cultural Studies at University of Washington Bothell. Her research focuses on participatory media production practices, gender and sexuality, and pedagogy. Also a filmmaker, she has screened her work internationally and has facilitated video production programming for girls and queer youth. She earned her PhD. in Communication from UC San Diego, an MA in Visual and Media Art from Emerson College, and a BA in English and Anthropology from Wesleyan University.

Greg Cohen (Associate Director) is an artist, curator, and Continuing Lecturer in Latin American Cinema and Visual Culture at UCLA. His work in video, photography, and multi-media installation has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and draws on diverse intellectual and aesthetic interests, from landscape theory and aesthetic philosophy to cultural memory and experimental archives, and from the history and theory of architecture to the intersections of moving-image media and radical politics. As a founding associate of REASArch (group for Research on Experimental Accumulation and Speculative Archives), Cohen has also created several ongoing visual research projects, including The Valaco Archive (https://valacoarchive.com).

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.

Zachariah Anderson (Curator) is a film scholar and teacher. His research about the shifting roles of archival images as evidence in digital-era documentary practices has been published in journals including Jump Cut, Film Criticism, Iluminace, and Found Footage. His current research project investigates documentaries’ reuses of appropriated body-worn camera footage and other state-produced surveillance images to support constructions of race, crime, and histories of violence. He previously served as Director of Programming for the Moving Image Society in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and currently teaches in Cinematic Arts at the University of Iowa.