Teeth Tacs
2024 · 10m · USA
Directed by Steph Twyford-Rigley
Genres: comedy, experimental
Tones: darkly comic, surreal, whimsical
Two estranged friends reunite at a beach house after a decade apart and start performing dark little rituals to break a mysterious curse hanging over them. Female friendship as occult maintenance work.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Two women trying to lift a curse with the same energy you'd use to assemble IKEA furniture — that's the kind of tonal weirdness I want more of. Bonus points for not explaining itself.
Female friendship as occult maintenance work, played with lo-fi sincerity refusing to wink, is the harder posture than ironic witchcraft — early Josephine Decker is the right ancestor. Yes.
Female friendship as occult maintenance work, with lo-fi sincerity refusing to wink — that's the harder move than camp. The Josephine Decker home-movie comparison is the right frame if it lands.
Reviews
A charmingly bizarre snapshot, a unique hybrid of the mundane and mystical.