Based on the author s experience as a director of found footage films, the current dissertation aims at identifying the reasons that induce filmmakers within a contemporary social context to set aside authorial cinematographic records in order to embrace fragments of several shapes and origins. This study is based on the supposition that the image of the Other is chosen due to reinforce both poetic and conceptual freedom of the artist, whose discourse lies on the present times, as shown in the films edited with appropriate ruin-images. In this movement, I try to explore the fractured identity, a characteristic that is accentuated in film productions since the 1990s, simultaneously with the historical review process the world hás been going through since then. In this context, the notions of appropriation, resignification, modernity, ruin, and archival are addressed under the historical perspective and cinematic practice.