Political Remix Videos

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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Another anti-military recruitment ad done by laying a DIY voice track over the original visuals of the commercial. The video was created by an activist group from Grand Rapids to both send a message and also as self promotion, more and more grassroots groups are turning to remix of corporate messages in their activist campaigns.

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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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Another remix from Negativland’s 1997 release “Dis Pepsi” with help from Harold Boihem.

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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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A political remix from youtube user “fallingrocks” asked, and answers, this question “What if the Military had to provide disclaimers in their recruiting commercials in the same way that Pharmaceutical Companies must provide every side effect possible?”

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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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