Political Remix Videos

A stunning video remix illustration of Jeremiah Wright talking about the “chickens coming home to roost” critique of US foreign policy. Creator Diran Lyons use footage from both documentary films and hollywood blockbusters to add visuals to Wright’s words from the pulpit.

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A video by Elisa Kreisinger that remixes presidential campaign promises over the past few decades and juxtaposes them with footage of people’s movements and protests on the streets.

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This mash-up of mass media images from movies and TV was put together by the Media Education Foundation as part of a media criticism video called “Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity“. MEF is one of the few big organizations, that I have found, who rely heavily on the fair-use of corporate owned footage in their video projects. Below is the intro from that film mixed with a new beginning and ending message added by a youtube user.

I would love to find more Political Remix Videos like this one, that deal with race gender and sexuality in the media and our society as a whole. If anyone knows of others please forward the links.

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An enlightening mash-up video project on the portrayal of masculinity in Disney animated movies by Sanjay Newton that appropriates footage from those films to illustrate narrated audio criticisms on the issue. This mash-up would fall into the category of educational remix so it has a very different feel than many of the other videos posted on this blog so far.

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Another Star Wars themed remix found on youtube, this one taking the audio of Obi Won Kenobi’s famous monologue in A New Hope: Episode 4 where he explains The Empire to a young Luke Skywalker and mixing it with footage of the Bush Administration and it’s War in Iraq. Here also is another slightly different version of this mash-up.

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One of many Star Wars themed Political Remix Videos, this one by Chris Campbell and uses the Star Wars movies combined with Fox News footage of the US invasion of Iraq and George Bush’s “State of the Union” speech to create a “Sate of the Empire”.

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A remix from 1992 called Read My Lips attacking George H. W. Bush on a range of issues. It was shown on MTV during the American presidential election campaign of that year. Following the video is a discussion about the mash-up on the Bill Moyers PBS program also in 1992. 

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Another remix by ATMO films in their Read My Lips mashup series. In this one they carefully cut up and digitally manipulate George W Bush’s Iraq invasion speech to make him slowly lip sync to the voice of a hypnotist putting us, the viewers and public, to sleep. He asks us to “just let go”.

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A remix from Minitrue.com of George Bush’s infamous “Victory in Iraq” aircraft carrier landing speech that also mixes in a bit of footage and imperial music from the Star Wars movies.

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An older remix from EBN from the early 90s which combines footage from the mass media and government leaders to create an “Electronic Behavior Control System“.

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Another remix from RX, this time he has UK Ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair sing a cover of the song Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash.

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Another political remix that uses a combination of appropriated footage from a presidential news conference cut with original footage shot for the purpose on a green screen.

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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. Though I will post remixes that are critical or parody the election process and institution of the presidency. However this remix of the recent “yes we can” Obama music video is worth a look. While highly critical of McCain the video does not overtly endorse any candidate and so fits on this blog.

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My most recent political remix video created from tv commercials, blockbuster movies and news footage from Iraq and Afghanistan. The alternative title for this remix is “teaching our children”.

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A TV movie trailer remix from video remixer Elisa Kreisinger created by mashing corporate media’s over sexualized depiction of women with the ad for the misogynistic horror flick Captivity.

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