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“Beast Beast” is not your typical teen drama. There are no fights about who’s going with who to Prom.

Part psychodrama, part tale of existential high-school angst, Beast Beast, from writer-director Danny Madden, follows three young people in a Southern suburb as their lives intersect. Based on a 2018 short film called Krista, the film is a commentary on the predominance of internet culture in the lives of today’s teenagers — and on the ways it breeds extreme isolation.Krista (Shirley Chen) is a theater kid who sends out audition tapes and makes iPhone videos of herself performing.

Writer-director Danny Madden’s “Beast Beast” clatters to life with organic percussion: a stick rat-a-tatting against an iron fence, a skateboard scraping on concrete, a rifle pinging bullets against a defenseless tin plate. Together, these sounds combine into jazz, despite the discordance of the three teens making such a ruckus.