伴郎

　　左篇：黑衣人
　　在咖啡店打工的大学生山本京香（小出早织 饰）某天收到一封神秘来信，信中附有一张她小学三年级时和同学幸子在山顶的合影。京香对当时的情景毫无印象，而在照片背面则发现“救命”二字。心存疑惑的她返回家乡，却得知幸子于10年前便已失踪。为何京香不记得当年的事情？回忆中不断 闪回出现的黑衣男子又是谁？

　　1938年，蒋介石为阻挡日军南下，扒开了郑州花园囗黄河大堤，致使河水泛滥，数万人流离失所。淮河流域的黑子（冯喆 饰）一家也家破人亡，他靠讨饭吃树皮度日，由此认识了熊三万（白穆 饰）家婢女葵花（王蓓 饰）。数年过后，人民当家做主，黑子民选当了村长。自毛主席发出“一定要把淮河修好”号召后，黑子和广大民工常年为根治水患战斗在大堤上。这期间，葵花也摆脱了地主奴役，参加了民工队。他们在修堤过程中，地主狗腿子侯二爪（钱千里 饰）伺机破坏施工，并想谋害黑子，最终受到人民惩罚。拦河坝终于“合龙”成功了，多少年多少代饱

　　“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