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Swatted
Swatted
7.7
/10
297 Ratings

SWATTED

Directed by Ismaël Joffroy-Chandoutis
France, 2018
Short, Animation, Documentary

Synopsis

Online players describe their struggles with swatting, a life-threatening cyber-harassment phenomenon that looms over them whenever they play. The events take shape through youtube videos and wireframe images from a video game.

Synopsis

Online players describe their struggles with swatting, a life-threatening cyber-harassment phenomenon that looms over them whenever they play. The events take shape through youtube videos and wireframe images from a video game.

Our take

From the commercially packaged to the state-sanctioned, violence permeates Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis’s unnerving short on a deadly cyber trend. Paired with real-time videos of streamers being harassed, wireframe animation of popular gameplay eerily evokes the hollowed-out core of online ethics.