Filmmaker Statement

As a Black filmmaker from a working-class background, Interview is a distilled confrontation with power, performance, and institutional control. At its core, the film examines how systems — whether corporate, cultural, or racial — extract value from individuals while erasing their complexity. Set entirely within a closed room, Interview explores the subtle violence of language, the coded rituals of assimilation, and the way power is exercised not through force, but tone, silence, and expectation. Growing up in Britain, I’ve been subject to the soft-spoken rigour of institutional spaces — places where success is promised, but belonging is conditional. For Luke, a young Black man interviewing for a graduate scheme, the room becomes more than a corporate threshold: it becomes a site of negotiation, discomfort, and dehumanisation.