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Dogshit

A man desperate to regain his lost edge becomes convinced that a grotesque new deodorant is the key to confidence, power, and success… but the solution might be worse than the problem.

  • Simon Jones
    Director
  • Kaylee Nicholas
    Director
  • Simon Jones
    Producer
  • Kaylee Nicholas
    Producer
  • Rhonda Davies
    Created by
  • Joseph Bilton
    Created by
  • Esa Shields
    Created by
  • Ben A
    Created by
  • Annie O'Donnell
    Created by
  • Mrs Luva-Luva
    Created by
  • Ed Jones
    Created by
  • Barney Curry
    Created by
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Dark comedy, satire, experimental, surreal, absurdist
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 19 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 11, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    100 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Distribution Information
  • People Versus TV CIC
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Simon Jones, Kaylee Nicholas

Simon Jones and Kaylee Nicholas are Liverpool-based filmmakers and co-directors working through People Versus TV (PVTV), a grassroots arts organisation focused on experimental film, collaborative making, and DIY production. Their work often blends satire, lo-fi aesthetics, and surreal humour to explore contemporary anxieties around identity, power, and self-mythology.

Simon’s practice spans filmmaking, animation, sound design, music, and community-led production.

Kaylee’s background is in performance, writing, and interactive storytelling, with a strong interest in comedy, character, and social dynamics. Her work often centres on exaggeration and discomfort as tools for critique and humour.

Together, they make films that sit between narrative, performance, and visual experimentation, often developed collaboratively with wider creative communities.

They curate its PVTV's Creative Meet-Ups and Fringe Flicks film nights, creating spaces for collective experimentation and peer-led filmmaking.

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Director Statement

Dogshit emerged through People Versus TV’s Creative Meet-Ups, open monthly sessions where artists come together to experiment, make, and test ideas without a fixed outcome. Rather than starting with a finished script, the film evolved through discussion, improvisation, and hands-on play, with contributions from many participants shaping its tone, imagery, and structure.

At its core, Dogshit is a satirical response to contemporary ideas of self-optimisation, masculinity, and the promise that confidence and fulfilment can be engineered through products, routines, or “hacks.” By pushing these ideas into the absurd, the film explores how easily insecurity can be repackaged as empowerment, and how performative confidence can exist entirely disconnected from how we affect others.

While Simon Jones and Kaylee Nicholas are credited as directors, Dogshit is fundamentally a collaborative work. It reflects PVTV’s belief in filmmaking as a shared process, where authorship is porous and ideas are shaped collectively. The film is less about delivering a moral conclusion than about inviting the audience to sit with discomfort, recognise familiar impulses, and laugh at how easily confidence can curdle into something grotesque.