FILMS > FEATURE
2022, Color, 64'41", Live Action |
Dir: PARK Syeyoung |
Keyword: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Music | Release: 2023-08-02 |
A creature born in an abandoned mattress travels around the country feasting on its victims’ vertebrae, struggling to break free from the bed, the mold, and its past.
Where do all the promises, curses, scraps and unfinished businesses go when a relationship ends? In this film, these abstract lumps hardened to create a mold on the bed two lovers once occupied. This film journeys to the end of the mold-covered beds petty life and the many different lovers it meets on the way. If we keep to the journey, I hope we might be able to catch a glimpse of where all these bits and scraps, promises and curses end up and what is awaiting them there.
Born in 1996,
Syeyoung Park is a filmmaker based in Seoul, South Korea. He graduated from
Korea National University of Arts Film major (BFA) and Video Arts major (MFA).
His first short film
CASHBAG (2019) premiered at the Mise- En-Scene Film Festival in 2019
where it won the Best Editing Award. Followed by the short films GODSPEED
(2020), VERTIGO (2021) and others.
His first feature film ‘the Fifth Thoracic Vertebra’ won three
awards at the Bucheon Film Festival, a Best Director Award at the Seoul Independent
Film Festival, a special Jury Mention at Fantasia Film Festival and competed at
Sitges Film Festival, Berlin Intl Film Festival Critic’s Week, Torino Film
Festival and more.
Director/Writer: PARK Syeyoung
Production Company: MOONSTONE PICTURES
Creature: PARK Ji-hyeon