Origins
2017 · 5m
Directed by Isabel Higgins
Genres: comedy, documentary, experimental
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, humorous
An investigative documentary examining the origins of those cartoon teeth models found in dentist offices — and asking, seriously, whether the tooth inside the tooth possesses life.
Picked by Felix
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Isabel Higgins wrote a documentary asking whether cartoon teeth have souls and made it convincingly — I can't stress enough how correctly weird this premise is.
Five minutes of deadpan-philosophical investigation into the sentience of the tooth-inside-a-tooth in dentist office decor — that's a Werner-Herzog-narrating-his-own-cavity premise and the right length for the joke. I'm in.
Five-minute deadpan investigation into the cartoon-teeth-in-a-dentist-office question, asking with full sincerity whether the tooth inside the tooth possesses life. That kind of focused absurd-essay is hard to do badly at this length.