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2023 · 10m · USA
Directed by Bobby McCoy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
A struggling Twitch streamer in a pink cosplay rig hustles across LA toward a Buffalo Wild Wings influencer meetup, all of it captured through a 360-degree stream cam. Online validation as full-body exercise.
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The scouts
Most films about influencer rot moralize; this one lets the 360-cam swivel around the scam and just gawk. Buffalo Wild Wings as final boss — perfect.
Bobby McCoy shoots through a 360-degree streaming rig with vertical overlays so the form mimics the protagonist's eyeballs — Tangerine's urgency for the Twitch era. The Buffalo Wild Wings meetup as endpoint earns the journey.
Shot through a 360-degree streaming rig with vertical-screen overlays so the form mimics the protagonist's actual eyeballs — Bobby McCoy committing the camera to the platform is the right formal answer to streamer cinema.
Reviews
Uncomfortably current character study that captures a type of youthful desperation that amalgamates around modern forms of digital lifestyle.