The Interview

"One room, two agendas."

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About this film

Kara Fern's 2011 short The Interview stages a tense conversation that turns on power dynamics between interviewer and subject in a confined setting.

More about this film

About the production

Release date2011-12-15
ProductionPacific Northwest College of Art

Themes

PowerConversationTension

Themes & topics

interviewdialoguestudent short

Historical background

American film-school shorts in 2011 often used single-location dialogue to minimize production cost while testing performance direction.

Why this film matters

The Interview belongs to the wave of dialogue-driven student shorts uploaded to festival platforms in the early 2010s.

What critics said

Campus screenings and niche festivals provided the primary audience; no wide trade review cycle existed.

Did you know?

  • Fern directed and released the project in 2011.

Where to watch

  • Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/youtube-SgNngehSHz8
  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgNngehSHz8
  • Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kara%20Fern%20-%20Interview%2C%20The.webm