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I Am Not Moving – An Occupy Wall Street Remix

By jonathan | Published: October 17, 2011

Here YouTube filmmaker Corey Ogilvie combines news footage of Obama Administration officials praising the Arab Spring uprisings (in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt) with citizen-shot video of police in New York City brutally attacking Occupy Wall Street demonstrators. The juxtaposition provides an instant, powerful and striking indictment of the deep hypocrisy in the words of both [...]

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Primetime Terror – TV Dramas and the War on Terror

By jonathan | Published: October 1, 2011

Remix maker Joe Sabia has teamed up with the Norman Lear Center and the ACLU to illustrate their “Prime Time Terror” study in fair use video mashup form. You might remember Joe from his Rent is Too Damn High + Up remix posted last year. This new remix dynamically highlights the study’s findings by borrowing [...]

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The French Democracy – Machinima

By elisa | Published: February 23, 2011

In 2005, a series of protests and “riots” erupted outside Paris in response to the electrocution of two North African boys during a police chase. Upset by how the mass media portrayed the incident, a 27 year old gamer named Alex Chan created a short video about the event from the prospective of immigrant youth [...]

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George W Bush in Alphabetical Order

By jonathan | Published: December 6, 2010

We’ve  posted a few of the many State of the Union remixes here before, but this one called “Qaeda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet” made by Lenka Clayton using George W. Bush’s 2002 speech is especially unique. Clayton cuts out each word of the former President’s speech and carefully pieces them all back together again [...]

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WikiLeaks Remix

By elisa | Published: November 5, 2010

This WikiLeaks remix uses gaming scenes from “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare” and footage from mounted military aircraft cameras during the Gulf and Iraq wars to make a persuasive argument about the way in which war has been sold to our generation as an interactive game with little consequence. The soundtrack is an equal [...]

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The Rent Is Too Damn High – Up Remix

By jonathan | Published: October 19, 2010

In the 2010 New York State Gubernatorial Debate a little known and very quirky (yet sincere) character named Jimmy McMillan managed to steal the show. He has since become somewhat of an internet sensation. McMillan is the candidate for his “Rent Is Too Damn High Party” so named because, well…rent is, in fact, too damn [...]

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The Reagans Speak Out On Drugs

By elisa | Published: March 24, 2010

This classic hilarious remix was made with two VCRs by Cliff Roth in 1988 and later went on to be his best known work. The footage is from a Presidential address that same year by Ronald and Nancy Reagan re-edited to suggest the inauguration of a pro-drug campaign in the United States. The mash-up serves [...]

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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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World’s Fair Use Day

By elisa | Published: February 1, 2010

In early January, Jonathan and I were invited to speak on a panel at  World’s Fair Use Day in Washington, DC to provide the perspective of artists who use copyrighted material in their work. Our panel followed Congressman Mike Doyle’s (D-Penn) keynote address on defending Fair Use against ongoing attacks from corporate media interests. It [...]

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The Red Stripe

By elisa | Published: August 28, 2009

This remix by freeyourpixels is a short yet eloquent critique of the US Marines “Red Stripe” online ad campaign. The remix uses still images and TV commercial clips for source materials and implements additive text and precise match-on-action editing techniques to unite them. The red stripe transitions the viewer from one clip to next and [...]

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