Full Time
2024 · 16m · USA
Directed by Jon Ryan Sugimoto
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, darkly comic
A skateboarder fresh out of high school is offered a lucrative job by a mysterious businessman: stand in a square all day for the rest of his life. A social satire on corporate America and modern work culture rendered as a deadpan parable.
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The job is to stand in a square. That's it. That's the whole satire, executed as a parable. The fact that it takes 16 minutes to argue this point is correct.
Jon Ryan Sugimoto's skater-hired-to-stand-in-a-suit corporate satire is a clean Bartleby-the-Scrivener gesture for our gig-economy moment — single-image premises this sturdy are rare.
The job offer is completely literal — stand in a square, indefinitely — forcing the audience to measure that against what real work actually demands. Bartleby-for-Gen-Z is a clean parable container and Brooklyn-Borough-Hall locality grounds it.