Kung Faux
| Kung Faux | |
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| Starring | (various) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Production | |
| Running time | 26 min |
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| Original network | Fuse |
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Kung Faux is an American action comedy television series and audio visual art assemblage created by Mic Neumann that remixes classic kung fu movies with popular music, comic book style editing with video game style special effects, and new storylines with voice-over dubbing from contemporary art stars, hip hop personalities, and pop culture icons.
Kung Faux was first created as an art project and movie treatment in 1999 before transforming into a half-hour television series by Kung Faux creator, producer, director and revisionist Michael "Mic" Neumann . The original Kung Faux series first appeared on the websites "Popdetail.com", "Dubtitled.com" and "BentoBox.tv" as video treatments for a proposed sequential art project and feature length film version of the "Kung Faux" concept, before using its comprehensive Remix formula to transform into an episodic format for television that first aired in 2003 as part of the inaugural launch of the Fuse music television channel in the United States, a subsidiary of Rainbow Media's AMC Networks. From there, Mic Neumann continued to revision, Remix and transform Kung Faux into a distinctive audio visual artwork and brand that has evolved through various forms and channels to over 150+ countries worldwide.
Kung Faux: "revisionist Mic Neumann has an offering worthy of the Postmodernism canon, alongside Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend and Luis Buñuel's Chien Andalou", reported Steve Johnston of The Film Cynics. Rashaun Hall of Billboard Magazine considered the mix of vintage kung-fu film footage, voice-overs with rappers, comic book style special effects, and a hip-hop soundtrack to be "a high-flying, hilarious send-up of the kung-fu genre." Evan Serpick, editor of Entertainment Weekly said the first two episodes of Kung Faux "are filled with hysterical and clever infusions". The Orlando Sentinel's Matthew Mark said "Kung Faux is a work of Postmodernism that would make Jacques Derrida's head spin."Muzik editor Conor W. McNicholas included Kung Faux in the magazine's Special Edition "Hot 50" issue, calling it "Comedy Gold" and Beth Accomando of KBPS said Kung Faux is "Hilarious, Fresh and Inspired."
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