Following the human Space Invaders, here’s Guillaume Reymond’s stop-motion Tetris.

The game was ‘played’ by 88 people during the Les Urbaines festival in Lausanne, Switzerland, on November 24th 2007.

More films in the archive.

Just discovered the Rumpus Room’s video for the Pet Shop Boys’ Integral, complete with QR-coded web links to be read with camera phones. It’s a wee bit cheesy and bombastic, as you might expect, but it’s not without a point.

More. And.

Here’s a little something for fans of the outlandish and uncanny. BBC4’s documentary series on British science fiction, The Martians and Us, can now be viewed online. Part one, Apes to Aliens, takes evolution as its theme and traces a brief and entertaining history, from H.G. Wells’ anonymous time traveller to John Wyndham’s unearthly schoolchildren. The three-part series covers the obvious and the obscure, the inspired and the unhinged, and teases out what has often made British science fiction different from, and darker than, its American cousin.

Here’s a taste.

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Part 2, Trouble in Paradise, and part 3, The End of the World as We Know It, are also online. Well worth watching. (h/t, The Thin Man.) Related: The original 1960 trailer for Village of the Damned. And here’s George Sanders having trouble keeping secrets.   

What’s the word for something that’s impressive and disgusting?

Via.

Warfare with nuts and ribbon. By PES.

The Making of KaBoom! can be seen here. And here’s a seasonal gift.

Related: Roof Sex. A tale of passion and upholstery.