The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra
Feature Competition
PARK Sye-young | 2022 | Fiction | Color | DCP | 64min 42sec (E)
SYNOPSIS
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.
DIRECTING INTENTION
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.
FESTIVAL & AWARDS
2022 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival / Korean Fantastic Best Director, Korean Fantastic Audience Award, Nonghyup Award
2022 Fantasia Film Festival
2022 Sarajevo Film Festival
2022 SITGES International Fantastic Film Festival
2022 The Ghent International Film Festival
2022 The London Korean Film Festival
2022 Torino Film Festival
2022 Beautiful Hapcheon Independent Film Festival
2022 Leeds International Film Festival
2022 Singapore International Film Festival
2022 Lima Alterna International Film Festival
DIRECTOR
PARK Sye-young
2019 Cashbag
2020 Godspeed
STAFF
Director PARK Sye-young
Executive Producers PARK Sye-young, PARK Ji-hyeon
Producer JEONG San-hee
Screenwriter PARK Sye-young
Cinematographer PARK Sye-young
Lighting PARK Sye-young
Editor PARK Sye-young
Music HAN Min-hee
Art Directors JEON In, KIM Terri
Costume JEON In, KIM Terri
Makeup JEON In, KIM Terri
Recording YOON Kwan-hee, KIM Kyu-bin
Mixing PARK Sye-young
CG PARK Sye-young
D.I. PARK Sye-young
Assistant Directors HAN Tae-hee, IM Ji-hyeon