Game Art: Palle Torsson "Free Falling" (2011)

In 2011, Palle Torsson, a pioneer fa Game Art, released "Free Fall" (2011), a video made with a game modification of Half-Life 2. As Torsson writes in his statement: "We are in a kind of perpetual fall, which dissolves notions of linearity and hierarchy." Interestingly, this artwork was released on September 12 2011, a day after the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

For "Evil Interiors" (2003), Torsson remediated the aesthetics of famous horror movies. "Free Fall" also features many references to Alftred Hitchcock's Vertigo, specifically the scenes where the main charachter Scottie gets dizzy.

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Submitted by Mathias Jansson

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