Tag Archives: queering culture

Video Is Our Voice

By elisa | Published: April 14, 2010

Jonathan and I have had interesting and exciting experiences with political remix video over the last few months. While our stories differ, they represent the shifting dynamic between gatekeepers and creators. I was recently featured on the front page of the Boston Globe in an article on activists using video as a voice (excerpt below). [...]

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Queer Housewives of New York City (Real Housewives Remix)

By elisa | Published: June 22, 2009

REMOVED 03/20/2010- NBC Universal has ordered youtube to remove these two fair-use remixes. You can read about the ongoing battle to get them back online on Elisa’s website and you can also watch the videos from there. The Queer Housewives of New York City (Real Housewives Remix) series follows Bethenny, the only single housewife, through [...]

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Harry Potter and the Brokeback Mountain

By elisa | Published: March 3, 2009

There are literally hundreds of Brokeback Mountain trailer parodies online but we think this Harry/Ron slash remix, by 19 year old vidder MissSheenie, is one of the best. The fusion seamlessly re-casts the stars of the Harry Potter films as characters from Brokeback Mountain. This process of slash fusion, particularly using the Brokeback Mountain trailer [...]

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I’m Your Man

By elisa | Published: March 2, 2009

Another in our series of vidding cross genre posts, this vid was made by Charmax in honor of International Day of Femslash. We have talked a bit about slash vidding in previous posts, and the term femslash specifically refers to female/female same-sex pairing of TV and movie characters that are placed into sexual or romantic [...]

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The Glass

By elisa | Published: February 20, 2009

As of June 30th 2009 Imeem has unilaterally removed all user generated videos including this one. Their reason for decimating 1000s of people’s creative work and the communities around it? “There is no ROI for UGV”. That unbelievable answer makes us nauseous. When this video is available again on another sharing site we will re-post [...]

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Wouldn’t It Be Nice?

By jonathan | Published: February 18, 2009

In this, our second post showcasing the remix form vidding, we present an example of a “slash” vid playfully set to Wouldn’t It Be Nice? by the Beach Boys. It’s an older vid by Laura Shapiro paying homage to some of the most famous fan slash pairings by remixing characters form many popular movies and [...]

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Top Gun Recut

By jonathan | Published: February 16, 2009

This mashup has become hugely popular on Youtube, viewed over a million times. The remixer re-imagines a trailer for the 1980′s blockbuster hit Top Gun creating a new narrative in which the very straight macho fighter jet pilots Maverick and Iceman have a romantic and sexual relationship. We consider this remix “queer-positive” because it subverts [...]

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Harry Potter and the Brokeback Goblet

By jonathan | Published: August 24, 2007

Another brokeback style movie trailer remix that “queers” mainstream straight culture. In this video the creator takes a queer negative movie (the Harry Potter franchise has no real queer themes or characters at all) and uses remix to create a positive queer relationship and storyline. Even so there is a fine line, in this emerging [...]

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Brokeback to the Future

By jonathan | Published: August 12, 2007

Whether intentional or unintentional Chocolate Cake City has created an example of a political remix that queers mainstream straight culture. However even though the video tries to pull out subtle queer undertones in the Back to the Future movies it would be far more radical if it were to “queer” the misogynistic Buff character and [...]

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