Thirteenth Night
第十三夜
CHINA | 2023 | Thriller, Suspense | Short | 15min
Director: Rachel SONG
Screenwriter: Rachel SONG
Producer: Zhou LU
Visual Director: Chi ZHANG
Sound Supervisor: Qi LIU
导演:宋晓文
编剧:宋晓文
制片人:陆洲
视觉设计:张驰
声音指导:刘琪
Synopsis
After receiving a call from her late fiancé, an unknown force starts to disturb Xiaoxue's normal life.
Director's Note
People eat, pray, and love, on their smartphones. In the era of information explosion and emotional anxiety, how can we create a new method of storytelling to deliver the most sensible reality? Is there a possibility for SOUND, as a medium, to tell a story without visuals generated by cameras? In THE THIRTEENTH NIGHT, the story reveals itself through private phone calls, the auditory senses of the audience synchronize with visuals in the style of Ryoki Ikeda, creating a flow of changing frequencies. In the suspenseful narrative, according to the characters’ arcs and story beats, we use the montage of auditory points to create an immersive experience for the audience. When a phone call, a signal, a frequency, or a supernatural sound breaks into our lives, the secrets of human nature start to unravel.
Festival&Award
2024 CLERMONT-FERRAND International Short Film Festival
2023 FIRST International Film Festival Pioneering
- Official Selection
2023 HiShorts! International Short Film Festival - Experimental Competition
1st MACAO International Shorts Film Festival
-Official Competition
Ennesimo Film Festival Sinophonies Selection
BIFAN Industry Gathering
Galacticat Festival International De Cinema De Tarrega I Ponent
Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
- Official Selection
Rachel SONG
Rachel Xiaowen Song, director, writer & producer, Variety “10 Producers to Watch 2018”, Screen International “Future Leaders 2018”. Dual BA degree in Film Production and Philosophy from Peking University, Master’s Degree in Arts and Cultural Management from Pratt Institute and Entertainment Industry Management degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Rachel has founded her own film production and financing company XS Media in 2017. The company has produced feature films A Kid Like Jake (2018) and Sundance award winner Nancy (2018). Rachel’s first Chinese-language feature film Summer Knight has won Asian Future’s Best Film Award at 2019 Tokyo International Film Festival, starring Lu HUANG, Lingchen JI and Ludi LIN.