DICKTATION
2023 · 7m · United States
Directed by Stephanie Kalogriopoulos
Genres: dark comedy, drama, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
A political satire in which three women arrive for an interview — for a job, a bank loan, or something far more consequential — that will change their lives.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A title that's literally a slur-pun directing you toward three women in an interview room—most scouts would run screaming, which is exactly why this works. Kalogriolopoulos refuses the safe read, turning what could be a clumsy provocation into something that actually interrogates power, consent, and who gets to speak, which is the whole point.
The satire lands most sharply in its formal restraint: three contained spaces, minimal set dressing, letting the dialogue and blocking do the ideological heavy lifting in a tradition that traces back through Mamet and Polley to the best of feminist political cinema.
The crucial move is the sound design's refusal to score the uncomfortable moments—letting silences and overlapping voices create friction instead of release, which transforms what could've been a lecture into something genuinely unsettling and alive.