Political Remix Videos

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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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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Found this while surfing youtube, a remix of corporate media news footage around the invasion of Iraq.

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This remix was created by artist Keir Smith in response to the Australian Government’s Fair Use Exceptions Paper in May 2005. The video mash-up explicitly abuses the copyright of easily referenced popular culture audio and video icons in ways currently illgeal but that should be covered by ‘fair use’. Find out more about the video here.

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The Black Lantern remixes news footage and Schwarzenegger action films to protest the execution of Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams who was put to death after final request for clemency by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger were denied. This work is in opposition of the death penalty.

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Another Bryan Boyce remix, this one of explicit audio from Scarface and video from Fox News’s broadcast of Dick Cheney’s speech at the Republican National Convention. Also check out this interview with Bryan about his work at Pixel Vision.

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This 2004 remix of a John Ashcroft news briefing puts the “war on terror” into perspective. The video uses added footage from Hollywood blockbuster disaster flicks and some video collage as extra visuals for the Attorney General’s announcement.

A collection of remixed State of the Union Addresses from various recent years that twist the president’s word. This practice of identity correction has become something of an annual tradition among video artists.

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Jen Simmons and Sarah Christman’s Bush for Peace offers a wistful look at what a presidential speech might look like if America actually become a kinder gentler nation.

Jump-cut Remix of C-Span interview of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld by Dangerous Squid Productions.

Using footage from CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC news reports, video artist Bryan Boyce possesses American news anchors with the spirits of old-time sci-fi who speak the virtues of electronic hypnosis and rule through fear. Created in 1999.