Toothache
- gentle
- intimate
Neutral, steady, gentle short / kanun, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A eductional short film based on a child named Mohammed-Reza and his poor dental habits. A majority of the second half film discusses many questions on dental hygiene.
Our read · Toothache (1980) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded short · kanun · educational entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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