Prick
2024 · 11m · USA
Directed by K.M. Murphy
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, tense
A podcaster secures an interview with a presidential figure, but what begins as cordial banter spirals into an intense ideological battle that exposes the gap between performance and authenticity in contemporary media.
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The scouts
A film about a podcast interview that turns into ideological warfare — because apparently the most subversive thing you can do in 2024 is put two people in a room and make them actually talk to each other.
K.M. Murphy stages a two-hander podcast-studio cage match where the performative grammar of the medium becomes the staging — Locke-adjacent compression in service of a media-critique that's necessarily of-the-moment.
A two-hander podcast-studio cage match using the medium's performative conventions as both staging and subject — at 11 minutes that's tight. Stands entirely on the dialogue and the two actors; risky but contained.