#occupygotham

[muthafuckin-starboy]

Respect.

[batmanremix]

Systematic overthrow of the underclass. Hollywood conjures images of the past... It's just that I've seen the future and, boy, it's rough

Lyrics from the Prince song "The Future" off the 1989 Batman soundtrack

[batmanremix]

Jim Carrey tends to portray characters, in both dramas and comedies, who have been wronged, exploited or dis-empowered by the powerful. He is great at embodying the classic underdog figure. Its for this reason The Riddler (as re-imaged through Carrey's extended filmography) makes the ideal remixed hero for this project. In fact the actor's "everyman" characters have a lot in common with Donald Duck from the classic Disney cartoons.

[batmanremix]

You're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us

Catwoman to Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Rises trailer.

[mikefalzone]

BATMAN Gives Sex Advice

[batmanremix]

Film stills of The Joker, The Penguin, The Riddler and Catwoman taken from Batman: The Movie (1966). Don't worry I will not be using any source material from this übercheesy Batman incarnation in my remix project. It is worth noting however that 1960s era Batman reruns were my very first exposure to the Batman Universe, in fact the show was one of the only things I was allowed to watch as a child. Growing up in an extremely religious and conservative household, TV was all but banned until I was about 10 years old. After that it was still severely limited, monitored and restricted throughout my tween years. Batman reruns were one of the few things on the approved list - largely because my Mom had been a fan of the show when it originally aired. Other shows deemed to have the appropriate "family values" were Family Matters, Star Trek, The Cosby Show, The Disney Afternoon and then later in 1992 Batman: The Animated Series.

[batmanremix]

How Remixing is Like Documentary Filmmaking

My friend, and vidder extraordinaire, Laura Shapiro recently observed that my remix video making process has a lot in common with documentary filmmaking. That is, to a large extend, I have to let the source media reveal the narrative. I spend countless hours gathering and combing through available audiovisual source material trying to construct a narrative plot from all the pieces. I definitely have an idea in my head for the topics I want to cover, the points I want to hit and the general direction I want to take the project but I'm never completely sure what I will find along the way or exactly how it will all fit together in the end. I've never thought of my process in exactly this way before but I think Laura is absolutely right about the documentary connection.

PHOTO: Buster Keaton’s 1924 film Sherlock, Jr.

[batmanremix]

Today a handful of global conglomerates own and control the telling of all the stories in the world. They have global marketing formulas that are imposed on creative people telling them to put in more action and cut out complicated solutions. They apply this formula because it travels well on the global market and of course the leading element of that formula is violence.

George Gerbner, founder of cultivation theory