16世纪初,朝鲜王朝进入了臭名昭著的燕山君(金康宇 饰)时代。燕山君刚愎自用,残暴无常,在奸臣父子任士洪(千浩振 饰)和任崇载(朱智勋 饰)的协助下,发动了“甲子士祸”,一举扫清了朝野对他的执正之言。在此之后,王朝内外再也无人敢于直谏暴君,而任氏父子则趁机做大,收编党羽,权倾朝野。为了满足无穷无止的欲望,燕山君任命任氏父子为采红使,命他们在全国上下寻找适龄美女进贡昏君。既能巩固权力,又能打击燕山君宠爱的张绿水(车智妍 饰),父子二人对此任务乐此不疲,并亲自挑选了名妓丹熙(林智妍 饰)入宫。rn权利与阴谋,爱情与欲望,交织在历史的车轮之中……
阿坤(卡文英玛诺泰 饰)是个孤儿,由村里强大的萨满莱穆养大。他受雇驱魔,却偷偷进行黑魔法仪式,想提炼尸油赚钱迎娶心爱的女孩苏伊,没想到这触怒了鬼魂、招致报复。此时苏伊恰巧来找他,究竟阿坤能否以所学和信仰帮助自己和身边的人死里逃生?
“For two years starting in 2020, this work has been forming along the edges of disquiet and premonition, in fragments and intensities, through wandering and not-staying. It has tried to find language for and ways across the bizarre upheavals of social and political values with the rise of fascism in India and a global pandemic. It has insisted on being amongst the things that keep from falling apart. Filmed in Delhi, these incomplete fictions are of the people, places, and protests that keep the language of hatred at bay and absorb the city’s grief and euphoria. In them are the continuous echoes of a violent and tenuous present. The false closures and tenuous associations in this video/essay compose a timeline of the city at an angle through the time of this work. There is a shadowy sense of a protagonist who un-dreams it all; a stranger, who it turns out, is no stranger at all.” Priya Sen