Neglect Doesn’t Stop At the Mouth 🦷🦷
This short film is presented as a distorted (PSA) anti-neglect campaign advert. The film follows a neglectful patient who is pulled into a surreal, game-like journey through their own deteriorating body. The descent begins with decaying teeth, progresses through the neck, and culminates in the spine, where the patient must reconstruct their own spine before it is too late.
Drawing from uncanny visual language, clinical environments, and experimental horror aesthetics, the film aims to create an unsettling audience experience that blurs the line between education and horror. Using a variety of practical prosthetics and distorted media, this short- form campaign ad is intended to confront viewers with the physical consequences of neglecting your health.
This film was inspired by PlayStation 2 Adverts, Operation, Japanese bone picking ritual, EXistenZ & Videodrome, Liminal spaces, Personal scoliosis Journey, Silent Hill, Yuki-Onna Japanese Folklore, Sony 2000s Aesthetic, Dolce & Gabbana SS 2003 Campaign X Steven Meisel.
Final year 3 short film for Hair, Makeup, Prosthetics for Performance at LCF
(Longer version will be posted soon, all shot on VHS)
Thank you to the fabulous performance technicians and fabulous peers for all your help.
@performance_techteam 💌💌💌💌
CAST & CREW
Patient- Riko Ko
@riko_ko__ at
@neomgmt
Faceless Doctor- Maisie Campbell
@maisiecampbe11
Director/Hair/Makeup/Prosthetics/Styling/Nails/Sound/Set/Editing- Fatou Toure
@fa2sfx
Lighting & Camera- Maisie Campbell
@maisiecampbe11
Videographer- Vixen
@viledress
Location Assist- Nicole Owen
@nicomiaowen
Jewellery- Riko Ko
@t.a.l.a.n.t.o 
