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- Artists Diran Lyons and Jesse Wilson utilize film to document their sculptural and performative interactions with diverse landscapes. Founding the art collective 'WHAT.IF?SOCIETY' in 2004 while studying New Media in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Lyons and Wilson make public events with large inflatable objects, ludic performance, and audience participation the direct subject of CALIFORNIA:EXCURSIONS. The resulting picture explores the relationships between synthetic materials and the natural California landscape, focusing on how everyday objects and materials can interact with their surroundings to create tension, pleasure, suspense, and an altered space.
- The Maggie Gyllenhaal characters in Death and Taxes grow increasingly weary of US militarism while representation and living conditions deteriorate in the United States.
- A remixed narrative that combines two Jake Gyllenhaal films (Donnie Darko (2001) and Jarhead (2005)) with news footage of President Barack Obama. As the President wins the Nobel Peace Prize, Gyllenhaal's character becomes disillusioned with Obama's increasingly pro-war rhetoric, escalation of the war in Afghanistan, and the failure to withdraw troops from Iraq.
- Bradley Mason needs a job, or so says his girlfriend, Victoria. A tempting opportunity arises when he reunites with old friend Randy, who had moved away from their boyhood city of Charleston to California.
- A series of crafted statements inspired by political commentaries at democraticunderground.com during July and August 2011.
- "Bushwacked II" is a Political Remix Video originally created in 2003 by UK satirist Chris Morris. While noting the similarities between the Bush and Obama administrations' spurious justifications for attacks on Iraq and Syria, respectively, Political Remixer Diran Lyons decided to re-edit the "Bushwhacked II" video to commemorate its tenth anniversary.
- Diran Lyons' strategic juxtaposition of the aggressive rhetoric of George W Bush with significant peaceful statements offered by Christ as portrayed in Franco Zeffirelli's "Jesus of Nazareth" [1977] recontextualizes content obtained from the news media to reveal - in Nietzschean flair - a greater truth that lies behind this reconfiguration, resulting in an overall critique of neoconservative politics and its claim to theological underpinnings.
- Political remix video that reframes the Ally Bank "Stop Accepting Nonsense" commercial, splicing fragments from Hollywood movies that feature bank heists.
- A poetic and anthropological investigation into the linguistic interrogation of an opponent that often accompanies competitive behavior. The film centers on the playful harassment of two individuals - Wallace Franklin and William Patrick Shaffer - who are engaged in a game of pool. The film highlights their ludic use of aggressive and violent phrases/terms. Except for the closing sequence which incorporates real-time audio for the first time, the film's overall silence strips these aggressive utterances of their audible context, making a viewer concentrate on the narrative visually, read lips, and search for the subliminal circles which are inscribed just for an instant around the mouths of the players. These isolate the uses of metonymic expression, drawing our attention to words, phrases, and sentences whose content is in total discord with their literal meaning.
- Artists of the Great Western Divide takes a look at three artists - Paul Buxman, Matthew Rangel, and John Spivey - and their creative response to the San Joaquin Valley of Central California. The film was a collaborative project with the Sequoia Riverlands Trust, a non-profit Central California land trust. Paul Buxman is a native to the San Joaquin Valley and has dedicated himself full-time to painting and farming since 1980. He studied plein air painting in Illinois. His son developed leukemia which sent Buxman on an environmental quest to clean up the San Joaquin Valley's water, soil, and air quality. He pioneered clean farming techniques which led to many sustainable practices used today. His artwork hangs in our nation's capitol as "a reminder to our leaders of what we must preserve." Matthew Rangel is a printmaker whose featured work was inspired by a pilgrimage he made from the valley floor to the highest reaches of the Great Western Divide of the Sierra Nevada. His print series, A Transect - Due East, is the result of this journey. During his travels, Rangel became acquainted with many knowledgeable and unique individuals throughout the Kaweah River Watershed that influenced his artwork and experience with the land. John Spivey is a poet, writer, and avid photographer born in Exeter, CA. His family were early pioneers in the San Joaquin Valley. Spivey's work includes the book, The Great Western Divide: A History with Crow, Coyote, Chaos and God, and digital photographs that document the color-saturated beauty of the Sierra Nevada. Director: Diran Lyons Producer: Janice Ledgerwood Writer: Janice Ledgerwood and Diran Lyons
- In this Political Remix Video, Barack Obama raps a modified version of Jay Z's "99 Problems." Mitt Romney has a few lines in the second verse, playing the role of "the police officer." The recalibrated lyrics cover subjects ranging from Occupy Wall Street, escalating energy costs, bank bailouts, "Fast and Furious," Obama's birth certificate, and the use of predator drones. This parable I give unto you: Not a few who meant to cast out their devil went thereby into the swine themselves.
- Keep the Clubs Swingin' features Barack Obama rapping a modified version of Dr. Dre's "Keep Their Heads Ringin' (Ring Ding Dong)." The revised lyrics satirize Obama's love of golf, his foreign policy, and the use of predator drones.
- Remixes footage from various sources to visually engage the pastor's contentious assertions from the pulpit.