Swiss filmmaker films Human Tetris performance art project

Whenever I hear the phrase “human Tetris,” it brings to mind images that are potentially inappropriate for children (yet is most often the reason they exist).

As Wired has pointed out, there are much less naughty and more publicly acceptable ways for people to perform large-scale Tetris with the human form.

The performance art project was organized by Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond, who had 88 people in an auditorium change seats, sit still, be photographed/filmed and then move accordingly. According to Wired, the project included 800 photos and took five hours to complete this stop-motion style movie. Lancerlord credits the event as taking place November 24, 200, at the Palais de Rumine in Lausanne, Switzerland.

This is not nearly as dangerous as the Japanese gameshow version that has contestants changing their body position to fit through oddly shaped holes in oncoming walls:

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