She was built to obey, but her heart had other firmware.
After her rich husband dies, an android wife is set to be auctioned off to a new man, until she soon develops romantic desires for a spunky waitress.
Acting
Kadavy's micro-expressions sell android awakening in seconds flat.
Direction
Bautista packs a feature's worth of worldbuilding into ten minutes.
Director
Jaren Bautista
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jaren Bautista made this as a USC thesis project, shooting the entire film in a single Malibu mansion over two days.
The 'wife auction' premise deliberately echoes 19th-century 'wife selling' practices, layering historical misogyny into sci-fi chrome.
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