Two remix examples using excerpts from Rev. Wrights sermons show are exercises in contrast.

Bush has been a favorite target of political remix and this video that uses the song from U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday - which is about the violence in Ireland between Protestants and Catholics - but used to talk about the Iraq invasion.

This next example shows that a new world is possible.

At its best, political remix challenges dominant world views and awakens political consciousness. This famous video about Katrina is both a music and video remix cut by subMedia is an effort to keep the mantra going “George Bush Don’t Like Black People” by The Legendary K.O. Make sure you stick through the credits for a surprise ending.
Director/Editor: Franklin Lopez
Music: Legendary K.O

Here are two remixes by Jonathan McIntosh, FURI facilitator, who uses remix to analyze and critique propagandic systems by corporations.

Many political remix videos expose the stereotypes and negative portrayals of modern media. Here are two great examples:

As Lawrence Lessig reminds us - Remix is part of human cultural history. Here is one of the first remixes ever done in film in 1942 by Universal Newsreel. Humor, parody, irony, juxtapostion and satire are used to expose and critique systems of power and oppression.

Another early remix can be found in the montage sequence of Bamboozled by Spike Lee.

Silvia’s poetic remix about the impact of gangs is complex and subtle - mixed to an instrumental of Dance with the Devil by Immortal TEchnique.

The Fair Use Remix Institute drew to a dramatic conclusion with the completion of five exciting video remixes by youth participants. Another two will be completed in the next week in time for the World Premiere to take place on July 25 at 6:00-7:00 at Columbia College’s Journalism Department. (33 East Congress) A food and drink reception begins at 5:30! Don’t miss this exciting event in which you will see some of our favorite remixes as well as our own and learn how remix represents a cultural communication right of youth.

Watch all our remixes now by clicking here.

Transformation by Keith (Imagine My Potential) Gordon

Ameenah and Aaisha’s video remixes source material from amateur videos and photographs documenting police brutality and aggression with Michael Jackson’s song Beat It.

This Political Remix Video is a critical, satirical and transformative work that constitutes a Fair Use in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107.