Tag Archives: economics

E-Trade Baby Loses Everything (Again)

By jonathan | Published: August 10, 2011

In honor of the ever worsening economic crisis in the United States I thought I’d post this College Humor remix of the SuperBowl XLII E-trade investor baby commercial overdubbed with a new identity correcting voice. This time America’s favorite stock trading infant looses his entire life savings by investing in credit default swaps. Too bad [...]

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General Motors: We All Fall Down Remixed

By elisa | Published: March 21, 2011

General Motors has been a good friend to remixers over the years. Remember their 2006 Chevy Tahoe campaign contest encouraging consumers to generate ad content for its SUV? GM provided the video clips, sound track and even an in-browser editing function to create additive text. Using the tools at hand, creators flooded the internet with [...]

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More Honest World Economic Leaders

By jonathan | Published: March 1, 2010

Our favorite political pranksters The Yes Men have spoofed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland with an official looking imaginary website. As part of the project they have also created these fantastic re-dubbed video interviews with global economic, government and corporate leaders where each appear to speak in brutally honest ways about real problems [...]

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Move Your Money: It’s a Wonderful Life Recontextualized

By elisa | Published: February 22, 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 [...]

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The Dark Bailout

By jonathan | Published: March 11, 2009

In this remix posted by Matthew Belinkie on overthinkingit.com, we see what the Joker thinks of the US government’s economic bailout plan. The gangsters in the blockbuster Batman film The Dark Knight are re-casts as taxpayers watching President Bush’s September 2008 speech urging Americans to support the first $700 billion bailout for major financial corporations on [...]

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Manifestoon

By jonathan | Published: December 21, 2007

This remix from 1995 by Jesse Drew is a somewhat low quality visual telling of the 1848 Communist Manifesto using footage of American cartoon characters combined with DIY narration of the text for the audio. While I’m personally not a huge fan of Karl Marx, its a creative and subversive political remix. ####

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WAR™

By jonathan | Published: November 20, 2007

Fixed link FEB/28/08 WAR™ is a political remix by Michele Aquila that uses still photographs from the US invasion of Iraq coupled with familiar multinational corporate logos. ####

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Surplus – G8 TV Shop

By jonathan | Published: September 24, 2007

This shopping network style remix is actually part of a larger video project called Surplus from ATMO Independent film collective. ####

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Heavy Artillery

By jonathan | Published: August 11, 2007

A political remix combining video, stills, graphics, text and music. The video is by Pedro Inoue and Paula Carvalho with music by ML. Some of the footage looks to have been recycled by video recording a TV set to create a distorting effect. ####

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Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade

By jonathan | Published: May 30, 2007

A classic political remix, made entirely by adding only extra subtitles to re-tale the story of Lord of the Rings in the context of neo-liberal free trade. Although not quite as good, see part 2 at the link below, the sequel is called The Twin Towers and explores post-911 issues within the United States. http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2004/09/02/twintowers56k.mov [...]

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