Posted by Elisa o n February 22nd, 2010
Eugene Jarecki, a documentary filmmaker who’s work includes the 2005 documentary Why We Fight, created this remix after making the connection between the current big bank bailout that fostered record profits and the story in the classic Frank Capra film It’s a Wonderful Life. In the film, community banker George Bailey helps the people of Bedford Falls escape a predatory banker Mr. Potter. With support from top financial analysts and the Huffington Post, the idea grew into this project: Move Your Money.
If enough people who have money in one of the Big Six banks (JP Morgan/Chase, Citibank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley) move it into smaller, more local, more traditional community banks, then collectively we, the people, will have taken a big step toward re-rigging the financial system so it becomes again the productive, stable engine for growth it’s meant to be. — Move Your Money Campaign
Category: short film
Topic Tags: activism, banks, bush, capitalism, corporations, economics, identity correction, obama
Posted by Jonathan o n September 17th, 2008
Bryan Boyce remixes George W. Bush and Al Gore from the 2000 election race with classic home shopping network voices to have both candidates literally selling the campaign for president. A pointed comment on how candidates are bought and sold in much the same way as other products on television. This Political Remix Video is finally available on youtube along with Boyce’s other video work.
Category: short film
Topic Tags: al gore, bush, consumerism, elections
A political mash-up video combing McCain, Bush and Obama speeches on energy policy created by the stimulator over at submedia. The video shows all three politicians saying exactly the same positive things about polluting, dangerous and unworkable energy alternatives. Basically all the US presidential candidates have been “drinking the Kool-ad” on nuclear, ethanol and the ridiculous lie of “clean-coal”.
You can also see and remix this video on RemixAmerica.org, a project which invites you to make your own remixes right on their website.
Category: short film
Topic Tags: bush, coal, energy, environment, mccain, obama, oil
A very disturbing remix from the video artist trio Wreck and Salvage. While not all of the collective’s work is political, this one definitely is. Titled “Club Iraq” because it combines rapper 50 Cent’s famous song “In Da Club” with audio of Bush’s invasion speech coupled with home videos taken by US soldiers in Iraq and posted on YouTube. The juxtaposition of the audio tracks and the armature footage US solders goofing off in a war zone, acting like immature boys and saying horrifically insensitive things to and about the Iraq population makes for a sickening, depressing yet poignant Political Remix Video. These troubling unflattering home videos and the thousands like them posted online are likely part of the reason the Military banned myspace and YouTube from its servers in 2007
I offer this warning before viewing, the clips of military personal use explicit language, imitate sexual acts with each other and will most likely make you feel at least slightly ill.
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Category: music video
Topic Tags: bush, iraq, military
Another Star Wars themed remix found on youtube, this one taking the audio of Obi Won Kenobi’s famous monologue in A New Hope: Episode 4 where he explains The Empire to a young Luke Skywalker and mixing it with footage of the Bush Administration and it’s War in Iraq. Here also is another slightly different version of this mash-up.
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Category: movie trailer
Topic Tags: bush, rights, star wars, terrorism, war
One of many Star Wars themed Political Remix Videos, this one by Chris Campbell and uses the Star Wars movies combined with Fox News footage of the US invasion of Iraq and George Bush’s “State of the Union” speech to create a “Sate of the Empire”.
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Category: short film
Topic Tags: bush, iraq, star wars, war
FEB/13/09 – Youtube says this video is “private”, that’s all the info we have, but it was once available for viewing and now is not.
Another remix by ATMO films in their Read My Lips mashup series. In this one they carefully cut up and digitally manipulate George W Bush’s Iraq invasion speech to make him slowly lip sync to the voice of a hypnotist putting us, the viewers and public, to sleep. He asks us to “just let go”.
Category: news segment
Topic Tags: bush, government, REMOVED