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Space Invaders: They’re Human

Via my one of my usual sources (popurls.com), I found a not-so-funny clip from Scrubs, in which Turk and JD play Space Invaders with the interns. I’m not really a fan of Scrubsm but because I’ve been playing a crapload of Space Invaders on my Nintendo DS, I watched the whole clip:

But as often happens on Youtube, I almost immediately discovered a video that did the “human space invaders” thing a whole lot better.

Turns out, there’s a whole series of videos that uses an auditorium and stop-motion video to whimsically recreate old school video games like Pong and Tetris. Dubbed the GAME OVER Project, the group schedules their collaborative art projects at different art and film festivals around Europe. Once the auditorium is booked, they use festival attendees in their shoots and later screen the films for the same audience:

GAME OVER is one of the art projects developed by the French-Swiss artist Guillaume REYMOND (NOTsoNOISY creative agency). It consists of a series of collaborative animation movies which revive some of the very first video games. The pixels are replaced by a group of real human-beings that are moving from seat to seat in a theatre during about 4 to 6 hours. Each "pixel" has its own rules and decides what s/he wants to do for each picture. Once all these pictures are turned into a short animation movie, a giant human-scale video game unfolds "live".

Pretty cool.