MILk TEETH
Short film, 2026
Calida is 20, a mother of two, caught between the demands of early motherhood and the residues of her own youth. MILK TEETH moves like memory—fragmented, tender, raw—as Cailda drifts between playgrounds, parties, classrooms, and restless hours at home. She moves through the noise, held together by habit and half-sentences. Friends orbit. Her mother flickers in and out. The kids are a constant hum. Reflections thread through the film in fragments as Calida muses on her shifting identity, her fear of being judged, and the quiet contradictions of care and ambivalence she feels as a mother. MILK TEETH is a portrait of a life in flux—where love, frustration, freedom and responsibility collide.
In post production | Recipient of Creative Victoria Funding
Writer/director—Jess Barclay Lawton | producers—Lizzie Cater & Scarlett Koehne | DOP—Bettina Carzino | Editor—Delaney Murphy | Production & Costume Designer—Hayden Relf | Starring—Calida