Along with the growing popularity of retro clothing and mash-up music, found footage filmmaking has come of age.

Remix filmmakers push boundaries by taking previously existing footage and re-editing it in inventive ways. Like musical mash-ups, found footage filmmaking borrows and remixes video to produce new ideas and meanings not intended by the original filmmakers.

The Carsey-Wolf Center at UCSB will host the Festival of (In)Appropriation from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday in the Pollock Theater. The event will include free film screenings, a question-and-answer session and a reception.

Reserve free tickets by email at pollocktheater@gmail.com.

A screening of the short contemporary films will be followed by a panel Q&A session with filmmakers and the festival’s curators: Jaimie Baron, Andrew Hall and Lauren Berliner.

UCSB’s Carsey-Wolf Center and the Film and Media Studies Department will introduce the art-savvy Santa Barbara community to this new avant garde art form for the first time.

The Festival of (In)Appropriation has been hosted by the Los Angeles Filmforum since 2009.

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— LeeAnne French is an associate director of the Carsey-Wolf Center at UCSB.