War begins with a camera.
Not a missile, not a drone, not a satellite arc across the night sky. But a lens deciding what is visible and what is not. Every modern strike starts as an image: a grainy silhouette, a heat signature, a cluster of pixels mistaken for certainty. Before the explosion, there is the zoom.
Dragging two fingers across a screen becomes a mechanism of violence.
Find. Fix. Track. Target. Engage. Assess.
The “Kill Chain” transforms data into death.
Architecture is implicated, too. Windows, thresholds and corridors all structures of framing and controlling space.
Weapons of Violence is a film that reveals the machine that promises clarity while manufacturing blindness.
This project was completed in Design Tactics under Prof. Jia Weng.