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A.V.A.T.A.R.
 (Anglos 
Valiantly 
Aiding 
Tragic 
Awe-inspiring
 Races)

By jonathan | Published: April 25, 2013

A.V.A.T.A.R. is biting remixed critique of Hollywood’s repeated use of the Might Whitey trope in which white heroes save oppressed and exotified people of color. Craig Saddlemire also created a highly critical mashup of Zack Snyder’s blockbuster film 300 which we have posted about before. He writes: A.V.A.T.A.R.
 (Anglos 
Valiantly 
Aiding 
Tragic 
Awe-inspiring
 Races) is 
a 
fast‐paced 
media 
mashup 
that 
highlights [...]

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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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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 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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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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The Future Stops Here

By jonathan | Published: March 1, 2009

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face. Forever.” The above George Orwell quote accompanies this vid by Lila Futuransky which deals with cinematic depictions of oppression and resistance. She weaves together appropriated footage from three sci-fi films set in a near future London; 28 Days Later, [...]

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No Bravery

By elisa | Published: February 14, 2009

This is the first in a series of posts highlighting the remix form called vidding. Vids are created by re-cutting television and movie footage with music in order to comment on the source material. The vidding genre is dominated by women who have been creating their transformative works as a self-conscious community of fan/editors for [...]

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Life is Like an SUV

By jonathan | Published: February 11, 2009

This remix, by a group calling themselves “Paul Harvey Oswald”, combines a significant amount of appropriated source material. In addition to news segments, sports footage, commercials, television clips, and additional text, this remix relies heavily on the strategic placement of repetitive sound bites.The result is a blunt critique of American consumerism, mass media and car [...]

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Al Jazeera Commercial Bumper

By jonathan | Published: February 11, 2009

This is a commercial bumper running on the Al Jazeera English news channel that remixes footage of Israeli defense minister (and winner of the recent Israeli elections) Tzipi Livni speaking about the attack on Gaza with images of the human catastrophe on the ground. The remix does not exactly fit our definition for PRVs as [...]

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