BATHROOM TIME (2022)

Corporate America is such a weird beast. It’s basically a facade that we all agree to prop up even though we know it seeks to dehumanize us. Control in the name of efficiency tends to rob people of even the smallest bits of basic decency. BATHROOM TIME takes this experience to outlandish (but not totally improbable) lengths as four women compete over the use of one space in a very limited amount of time.

Directed by Sara June, from a script by June and Graham Riley, the short is a darkly hilarious look at the office culture that whittles down the Maslow hierarchy of needs to remove all but the very bare minimum to promote better quarterly earnings. Oddly enough, while writing this post, I had to go over my own sick days at my day job because that’s just how these things go, apparently.

BATHROOM TIME stars Anna Seregina, Christine Medrano, Steph Tolev, and Bri Pruett and has been featured at multiple festivals including Salute Your Shorts Festival and Women's Comedy Film Fest Chicago. It’s a very brief short that capably grounds the absurd and grotesque in a sympathetic but uproarious manner.