Northwest Film Forum

From the basements of samizdat film geeks to the more well lit purlieus ofThe Huffington Post, remix filmmaking has transitioned from oddball, obsessive tinkering to a central way our culture communicates. While its prevalence on sites like Funny or Die may give the impression remixing is a frat house gag, the form can contain a potent mix of the lyrical and the awe-ful, the sublime and the cloying, the progressive and regressive, the high and the low.  Scratch video, mashups, culture jams, subtitle hacks, “uncreative” data, supercuts . . . tonight’s selection of films will provide a range of historical and current examples, from art house classics to meme-generated, quasi-anonymous endeavors.