Political Remix Videos

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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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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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 genre, between negatively making fun of queer culture and positively celebrating it.

Note: Above the word queer is used as a positive verb meaning to reevaluate or reinterpret a work with an eye to sexual orientation and/or gender.

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 not the two already somewhat oddball characters of Doc Brown and Marty McFly.

Note: Above the word queer is used as a positive verb meaning to reevaluate or reinterpret a work with an eye to sexual orientation and/or gender.

A film trailer style remix of Die Hard movies mashed up with news footage of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Mooninites light box advertisement “IED scare” debocal in Boston this year. The parody poking fun at the “war on terror” induced massive overreaction from the police and city government is from Chocolate Cake City, a Boston based comedy troupe.

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One of the best political remix videos on the net, it was created by Jacqueline Salloum. The video deal brilliantly with anti-arab racism in the entertainment industry.

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A trailer remix of the blockbuster movie Days of Thunder, queering the film and it’s characters.

This video has sadly been removed from youtube with this note in its place “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Paramount Pictures Corporation”. So if anyone finds in elsewhere online please post it in the comments.