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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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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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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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Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

By jonathan | Published: January 5, 2010

Remix artist Diran Lyons, who’s work we have featured on this site before, has just completed an ambitious remix project critical of President Obama’s foreign policy entitled “Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize”. The piece is a remixed narrative that combines two Jake Gyllenhall films (Donnie Darko & Jarhead) with news [...]

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Racial Equality – $29.95

By elisa | Published: February 13, 2009

I created this remix to highlight the commodification of race in the 2009 inauguration. The efforts to commemorate our first black President through the buying and selling of Obama products actually erased a history of radical struggle, turning black identity into another resource appropriated by the mainstream to produce capital. Created solely from television footage [...]

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Synchronized Presidential Debating

By jonathan | Published: November 1, 2008

Another election debate remix critical of the current system – this one from 236.com. The video uses carefully synced-up CNN footage from all three presidential debates to highlight the repeated use of well rehearsed talking points by both candidates. If watching the debates gave you a funny feeling of déjà vu each time, this remix [...]

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Revolution ’08

By jonathan | Published: October 31, 2008

Remixer TV Sheriff has teamed up with drum and bass duo ColdCut to create a new multi-layered mash-up video just in time for the US election. In this blog I have tried to include election remix videos that are critical of the election process or the presidency in general rather than showcasing all the numerous [...]

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So You Think You Can Be President?

By jonathan | Published: October 22, 2008

My latest Political Remix Video transforms the US presidential debates into a new reality show by combining the PBS/BBC debate broadcasts with the Fox show So You Think You Can Dance. In this re-imagined narrative the judges are far more honest (and tough) on the candidates stances around issues of war, oil drilling, nuclear energy [...]

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McCain08: Like Hope But Different

By jonathan | Published: February 12, 2008

Unlike most of the other remixes posted here, which are made entirely of appropriated material, this video uses a combination of appropriated footage from corporate news segments cut with original footage shot for the purpose. I don’t often post political remixes videos about the 08 elections and especially never any that advertise a particular candidate. [...]

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The Reel President

By jonathan | Published: November 1, 2007

The Reel President remix illustrates the power of cinema and examines the tools used to create a presidential image by video artists Morgan Schwartz and Amy Sharp. Click link below to watch video: http://www.archive.org/details/MorganSchwartzandAmySharpTheReelPresident The White House has appropriated the notion of the “President” from Hollywood and employed Hollywood tactics to sell America a constructed [...]

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