Mash-ups are all the rage these days as songs, movies, and every sort of media find their disparate parts joined into a usually surprisingly-cohesive whole. Now the filmmakers themselves are getting into the trend. Jam! reports that Canadian director Bruce McDonald has put together a nifty little project -- he's uploaded tons of raw footage from his experimental film, The Tracey Fragments, onto the film's sweet-looking website, along with the script and the Broken Social Scene soundtrack -- days before it gets released.

According to the report, the footage is in four files, each weighing in at approximately 4.5 gigs. Those who bite and get creative with the clips are invited to post them on YouTube and take part in their contest. McDonald will check out the creations, and along with his editors, they'll pick a winner who will get an Apple Final Cut Pro prize pack, and a chance to appear in the film's DVD special features. Not a bad deal -- especially since people often do this just for their own amusement.

The flick definitely lends itself to a lot of interpretations, as our James Rocchi explained from Cannes this year: "Tracey's story skips all over the place, and so does the film; every shot in The Tracey Fragments is made up of multiple panels -- now and then ordered in geometric precision, occasionally as random and shattered as Tracey's thoughts and life." To make it all even more interesting and view-worthy, it stars Ellen Page. What more could you want?

No matter what your opinion on the now ubiquitous trailer mash-up, some can actually be pretty funny. My first experience was not that long ago with the mash-up of The Shining featuring Jack Nicholson doing his best troubled romantic-comedy guy routine -- instead of the raving psycho he really is in the actual movie. Although, that wasn't the first one ever made. According to Wikipedia, that honor actually goes to former NYU students Ben Campbell, Sal Perez, Jack Picone and Spencer Somers and their mash-up of Kill Bill and The Passion of the Christ called Kill Christ. So, if you don't like mash-ups you can blame them.

Plus, there's the one with A Christmas Story re-imagined as a horror film. That's pretty funny. I also like the X-Men: Last Stand / Office Space one as well. It's interesting how some of the shots can be so dramatic when taken out of context. I may never look at Office Space the same way again. Well, I probably will. And, of course, the mash-up got even more popular thanks in large part to those two gay cowboys in Brokeback Mountain (as our own Martha rightly pointed out before). So you had a string of Brokeback mash-ups which now run into the dozens over at YouTube. Search, you'll fine 'em. My favorite -- Brokeback to the Future. Now that's what a mash-up is supposed to be.

There's even a website (probably more than one) devoted completely to mash-ups that you can check out if you feel strongly about your love for these things and just want more, more, more of them. Which brings us to one of the latest ones -- a mash-up of Apocalypto and The Last Kiss called Zach Brafs' Apocolypto. Not as funny as Brokeback to the Future but I give them an "A" for effort. Enjoy.