Game Art: Chris Howlett's "Human vs. Human" (2011)

""Human Vs Human" is a Machinima film which uses various autobiographical war veteran stories from online social networking sites, live recorded 3D game play from first person shooter games and and remixed pop songs from all male pop groups to create alternative narratives which subvert and intensify their original meaning. The video work inserts the real life personal narratives of soldiers into a virtual gaming world cut with pop music, in-game narratives and atmospheric sound tracks to create a disturbing, conflated look at the reality of warfare, its simulated double and the psychology of masculine violence and seduction." (Chris Howlett)

link: Chris Howlett

previously on GameScenes: Michael Jackson (2009), Homesteads (2009), Metropolis I (2009).

Submitted by Matteo Bittanti