Runtime: 6 minutes
Having reached the third month of President Obama's third year in office, this work in progress becomes the third remix video of Project 12. The remix is a segment of a larger ongoing video project that will reach completion when Obama leaves office. The compilation tediously extracts fragments of video footage from the www.whitehouse.gov archive, chronicling every time Obama says "spend, spent, spending" etc.
Screening: Sunday, November 13, 1:30PM at 217 East 42nd Street Reserve Seats
Runtime: 1 minute 12 seconds
LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD (Project 12, 8/12) features a series of crafted statements inspired by political commentaries at democraticunderground.com during July and August 2011. Instead of various presidents combining to make an overall commentary (as was the case in the 2007 theatrical release of Live Free or Die Hard), Barack Obama is the sole speaker of the remix. He is made to say the following: The wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations spent a lot of money on my campaign to protect big Wall Street banks, quick profits, and fat executive bonuses, so business as usual can reign. I am going to keep on serving special interests, big corporations, and gas companies. And I intend to pretend that it is for the good of the country. Simply put: we need to extend tax cuts for the most fortunate among us, like corporations that have been making record profits. I'm happy to do it, and that's what we've been doing. The fact is: this is a "shared sacrifice." We are sacrificing the American people and sharing taxpayers' money amongst the rich. (Natalie Portman): That's quite enough of that, thank you very much. We're not done. We need an approach that makes some serious cuts to worthy programs. If you're a senior citizen -- I've said it before, and I will say it again -- Social Security and Medicare will be eliminated. If you ask Democrats and Republicans, they say we've got no money, and they send you home. Meanwhile, we are killing innocent civilians around the globe.
Screening: Sunday, November 13, 1:30PM at 217 East 42nd Street Reserve Seats
Runtime: 2 minutes 28 seconds
Death and Taxes (Project 12, 5/12) is a re-cut trailer that samples seven Maggie Gyllenhaal films. A progressive and politically thoughtful youth, the trailer suggests a coming of age where the Gyllenhaal characters grow increasingly weary of financially supporting US militarism while representation and living conditions deteriorate in the United States. Directed and Edited by Diran Lyons: http://lyonspotter.blogspot.com Co-written by Diran Lyons and Stephen Mears **FAIR-USE** This video constitutes a fair-use of its repurposed sources Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 Sampled Films (In Order of Appearance): Columbia Intro Donnie Darko Serendipity Good Will Hunting Mona Lisa Smile Secretary Inside Job World Trade Center Fight Club Stranger Than Fiction The Hurt Locker Where The Heart Is The Dark Knight Abduction Crazy Heart Battle Los Angeles Colombiana News Sources (In Order of Appearance) April 10, 2010 Barack Obama Weekly Address MSNBC. Decision 08. CBS News: Anti-Tax Tea Parties, with Maggie Rodriguez (April 15, 2009)
Screening: Sunday, November 13, 1:30PM at 217 East 42nd Street Reserve Seats