Appropriation filmmaking is an engaged practice, in which authorship is separated from vision, and yet a poetics of collage and a creative use of sound make this very much an art practice. The author is not only a producer; she is also a builder and a destroyer, constructing new work out of old and making new ways of knowing out of the traces of past experiences.
Catherine Russell, Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices, Duke University Press, 2018, p.9.
Discuss the quotation above. You should make reference to specific examples of found footage films.
