Process
2026 · 2m
Directed by Lalie Milin
Genres: drama, experimental, satire
Tones: contemplative, dark, provocative
Several women parade, one by one, before a jury that submits them to a cold, mechanical judgment, classifying them and evaluating their usefulness.
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A two-minute tribunal that flips the beauty pageant inside out—except the horror isn't the judgment, it's how mechanical and *inevitable* it all feels. Milin does what most filmmakers won't: she makes the audience complicit in the cold assessment, and refuses to let us off with righteous anger.
The formal severity of the jury setup echoes a lineage of institutional critique cinema, yet Milin resists polemics in favor of pure formal observation; the restraint of the mise-en-scène and the almost clinical pacing position this within a thoughtful documentary-realist tradition rather than agitprop.
The crucial move is the decision to keep the jury *silent and unseen*—we only feel their gaze through the women's micro-expressions and the mechanical framing. That single formal choice transforms what could've been a blunt statement into something genuinely unsettling and ambiguous.