14 Nov 2011

"Stop Accepting Nonsense" Ally Bank Commercial Remix

This Political Remix Video reframes the Ally Bank "Stop Accepting Nonsense" commercial, splicing fragments from Hollywood movies that feature bank heists. The man at the ATM has a reverie of stealing money back from the "too big to fail" banks, such as Goldman Sachs who received taxpayer funded bailouts, and sent over 4 billion in federal tax money to 32 entities, including many overseas banks, hedge funds, and pensions*. Narrating the bank heist interstices is the voice of trends forecaster Gerald Celente (www.trendsresearch.com). The video was inspired in part by Los Angeles-based painter Alex Schaeffer, whose depictions of US megabanks on fire drew much attention in the fall of 2011. In the same fashion that Schaeffer had no intention of performing the acts depicted in his pictures, this video is in no sense a call to violence. Rather, it nods to the fact that the political system is broken, representation of the 99% does not exist, and ensuing crime will be on the rise -- as Celente has also previously forecast -- as people increasingly struggle to find work and food around the globe. Source