Mashup Contest 2009

The annual Mashup Contest celebrates student creativity with video and multimedia. The 2009 Contest was sponsored by Penn Libraries, the Penn Humanities Forum, the Cinema Studies Program, and College Houses and Academic Services. The contest included an online voting page for all entries. The awards ceremony was held on April 30, 2009 with a press release issued in June.

First Prize

Video + Poem + Painting
by William Strasser
Whether in Classical mythology, Renaissance painting, 20th century poetry or modern music videos, depictions of suffering have never ceased to captivate audiences. I aim to juxtapose these depictions in order to highlight ways they have changed and ways that they remain the same, identifying something inherent to the human condition.

Winner's Commentary

Second Prize (Mature Content)

The Muppets Take "Manhattan"
by Aaron Walker
I'm trying to show that puppets can be lewd AND funny - unlike Avenue Q. Here I've spliced the audio from Woody Allen's "Manhattan" over video from "The Muppets take Manhattan".

Third Prize

No Way Out of the Field of Dreams
by Allison Seelig
I am trying to show how baseball serves an important mythic function for the nation by making it into a national security issue obsessed over by the government.

People's Choice Award: (determined by online voting)

Slumdog Millionaire 2
by Akash Barot with Adam El Sehamy and Zhibo Wang
If you thought Slumdog Millionare was the last great Bollywood movie, you would be mistaken. Get ready for the sequel!

Other Entries

Online list of all entries with descriptions