SWATTED

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.

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.