Jaimie Baron
Jaimie Baron is a writer, editor, curator, and theorist. She is the author of The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (Routledge, 2014) andReuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era(Rutgers, 2020) as well as many journal articles, book chapters, essays, and reviews. She is the founder and director of the Festival of (In)appropriation, a yearly international festival of short experimental found footage films and videos. She is also a co-founder and co-editor of Docalogue, an online space for scholars and filmmakers to engage in conversations about contemporary documentary, and the Docalogue book series. She also co-edited a collection entitled Media Ventriloquism: How Audiovisual Technologies Transform the Voice-Body Relation (Oxford, 2021) and co-authored the 4th edition of Introduction to Documentary with Bill Nichols. She previously held the position of professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Alberta. She is a 2022 – 2023 recipient of a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship. She currently lectures in Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley.
