Political Remix Videos

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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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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This remix is a somewhat low quality visual telling of the 1848 Communist Manifesto using footage of American cartoon characters combined with DIY narration of the text for the audio. While I’m personally not a huge fan of Karl Marx, its a creative and subversive political remix.

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Fixed link FEB/28/08

WAR™ is a political remix by Michele Aquila that uses still photographs from the US invasion of Iraq coupled with familiar multinational corporate logos.

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Here is one of the first political remixes I have found from 1942 called “General Adolph Takes Over”. Made by Universal Newsreel using material pirated from the famous nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will” than cut up, re-edited and set to the quirky British dance tune “The Lambeth Walk“. The short makes fun of the marching nazi soldiers, as well as Hitler making them look like wind-up dolls, dancing and skipping to the music.

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A another Negativland remix with help form by James Towning.

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A remix by subMedia that appropriates media icons Eminem and Apple’s Ipod to make a critical comment on the war in Iraq.

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The Reel President remix illustrates the power of cinema and examines the tools used to create a presidential image by video artists Morgan Schwartz and Amy Sharp.

Click link below to watch video:
http://www.archive.org/details/MorganSchwartzandAmySharpTheReelPresident

The White House has appropriated the notion of the “President” from Hollywood and employed Hollywood tactics to sell America a constructed image. We use Hollywood films, televised debates and press coverage, to investigate the political climate and the role of still and moving images in the portrayal of the Presidency. The Reel President explores the relationship between acting presidential and being presidential.

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This shopping network style remix is actually part of a larger video project called Surplus from ATMO Independent film collective.

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This remix by Diran Lyons juxtaposes the aggressive rhetoric of the Bush Administration from news footage with significant peaceful statements offered by Christ as portrayed in Franco Zeffirelli’s “Jesus of Nazareth” [1977]. Its a one of the longer remixes clocking in at around 9 or 10 minutes.

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A video remix to go along with the Negativland audio remix song “You Must Respect Copyright” using footage from Kubrick’s 2001. By someone calling themselves biginalbania.

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Another historical audio video remix by Negativland from 1998.

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A brief history of the culture jam, from Warhol to EBN from Craig Baldwin.
More of a “how to” than the other political remixes on this blog.

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