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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.

  • France
  • 2018, 21 min
  • Director: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
  • Director of photography: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
  • Editor: Maël Delorme, Céline Perreard, Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
  • Screenplay: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
  • Music: Disasterpeace
  • Producer: Luc-Jérôme Bailleul
  • Production: Le Fresnoy

PROJECTIONS
22.1. 20:30 Praha | Světozor - Small Hall
24.1. 18:00 Praha | Světozor - Small Hall

Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis

Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis is a French director and film editor. He graduated from INSAS (Belgium) in editing, from Sint-Lukas Art School (Belgium) in filmmaking and from Fresnoy (France). Ismaël explores a cinema beyond the boundaries of genres. His films question memory, virtual reality, technology and the intermediate spaces between worlds and words. He earned a reputation as a filmmaker with his film Dark Waves (2018), which was screened at a number of international festivals, including IDFA and Clermont-Ferrand, and which won several awards. His latest short, Swatted ​(2018), was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 2019 Clermont-Ferrand ISFF.