These films have an array of approaches. I encourage you to shoot your own footage if you are able to and think about how you could combine fresh video with old material to create a dialogue.
Keep checking back on this site for more inspirations.
Here is the TIME TRAVELING assignment again linked HERE
HERE is a site with more about appropriation and fair use law.
Science Friction by Stan Vanderbeek
Mirror World by Abigail Child
Mirror World (follow the link) uses all appropriated footage, combined through layering and mirroring, as the title suggests.
Student work: RTD 365A: This meditation on place combines fresh and found footage
Golden Digest by Animal Charm combines several different sources of video into a strange portrait of an animal.
Student of RTD 365A Found Footage project on the theme of work
Student of RTD 365A Found Footage project on the theme of work
Student of RTD 365A Found Footage project on the theme of the future
Student of RTD 365A New Footage montage/story on the theme of self and place
(George Bush) Don't Like Black People, Franklin Lopez
taking off from Kanye West's statement on television
Student work rtd 365a -Experimental, expressionistic short story about suicide intervention
Wonder Woman by Dara Birnbaum
awesomely weird film!! follow the link!
Bagger 288- an enormous killing machine by Rather Good (linked)
Student of RTD 365A This project experiments with light and dark scenes to communicate the producer's passion for rugby
This film used footage from the news and science fiction movies to tell another story about the Iraq War. Who tells the story about the past? How would you remake it?
Phil Patiris Iraq Campaign
Here is an experimental film that concentrates on shape vectors.
Ballet Mechanique by Ferdinand Leger, 1924
To Hug you and Squeeze you is by Wago Kreider
by Wago Kreider (02:21)
Woody Allen's Zelig
This uses documentary style - combining new interviews that supposedly construct a story out of found footage.
Fallout from Paul Turano on Vimeo.
These are more creative in their choices of "footage" Yes You may use still images...
The Body Besieged, 2009 by Kelly Sears
This uses still shots like the other work below of Fichter, but gives nice ideas for dividing and using the space inside the frame.
Follow the link to The Body Besieged, 2009 from Kelly Sears on Vimeo.
Walking on Water from celeste fichter on Vimeo.
Here is an impressionistic study of PLACE personalized that incorporates different kinds of footage and uses homemade music.
Jem Cohen: We Have An Anchor from EMPAC @ Rensselaer on Vimeo.
This film plays simply with the shape vector - matching the location of the circles in this old art film with the form of a circus performer.
oops from Chris Beckman on Vimeo.
SONGS FOR EARTH AND FOLK from Cauleen Smith on Vimeo.
The Abolition of Work by Naoki Izumo
Abolition of Work from Naoki Izumo on Vimeo.
