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Gregg Biermann's The Hills Are Alive
Gregg Biermann's The Hills Are Alive from The Hills Are Alive (2005)

Iconic scenes from "The Sound of Music" are transformed through a computational remix

Cibo Matto "Sugar Water" Music Video
Cibo Matto "Sugar Water" Music Video from Sugar Water (1995)

An interesting use of the implosion of time/space and splitting the picture frame to tell two seemingly separate stories.

Rico Gatson's Gun Play
Rico Gatson's Gun Play from Gun Play (2001)

A kaleidoscopic mashup of Blaxploitation films and Spaghetti Westerns

Marshall McLuhan cameo in Annie Hall
Marshall McLuhan cameo in Annie Hall from Annie Hall (1977)

In this classic scene from Annie Hall, Woody Allen breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera and producing Marshall McLuhan from behind a movie poster.

Software Demo of HF Critical Mass
Software Demo of HF Critical Mass from For All Mankind (2005)

A moonwalk video shot by NASA played through a Critical Mass named after a movie by Hollis Frampton in 1970.

First person POV in Halloween
First person POV in Halloween from Halloween (1978)

An interesting use of POV to put the spectator inside the head of a killer

Les Neuvelles
Les Neuvelles from Les Neuvelles (2004)

Time jumps around in this video representation of space.

Pharcyde "Drop" Music Video
Pharcyde "Drop" Music Video from Drop (1995)

A music video of Pharcyde's 1995 single, effectively uses reverse motion

Naked Lunch Telepathic Conversation
Naked Lunch Telepathic Conversation from Naked Lunch (1991)

Bill Lee (Peter Weller) and Tom Frost (Ian Holm) discuss murdering wives in a telepathic conversation in David Cronenberg's adaptation of William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch.

Title Sequence for Beavis and Butt-Head Movie
Title Sequence for Beavis and Butt-Head Movie from Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)

A title sequence referencing 70's cop action movies, elements of Shaft and Starsky and Hutch are evident.

Terror Iraq Weapons
Terror Iraq Weapons from Terror Iraq Weapons (2003)

A video clip that boils down George Bush's 2003 speech to the three basic keywords.

Grey Video
Grey Video from Grey Video (2004)

A mashup music video that combines a 1960's TV broadcast of a Beatles performance with a Jay-Z performance.

Fight Club Ikea Catalogue Scene
Fight Club Ikea Catalogue Scene from Fight Club (1999)

This scene marks an extra-diegetic moment in the narrative of Fight Club.