TOOTH Trailer (Slamdance 2023)
Description :
When my parents moved out of my childhood home, my mother insisted I take all my old belongings. Old scripts and journals, swimming trophies, boxes full of notes from my high school crush, and… my teeth. Turns out my sentimental mom had kept every tooth that had ever fallen out of (or been pulled from) my head.
Staring in the mirror after waking up from yet another “teeth falling out” nightmare, I thought, “What would happen if I were brushing my teeth and they all fell out?”I asked this question to a writer friend. She didn’t hesitate: “Well, they’d come to life and kill you, of course.”
Of course.
TOOTH is intended to blend genres. To bring the teeth to life, I combined puppets out of my actual teeth with 3D-animated models. While TOOTH is inherently shocking and disgusting, it’s also meant to be funny. I worked with a talented composer and 2D artist to create a score and visual design that would let the viewer know that it’s okay to laugh even though they may be asking themselves, “WTF did I just watch?!”