She Was Thrown Into a River for Being a Girl | BARI — Korean Shamanic Myth · AI Short Film

A king threw his seventh daughter into a river for being born a girl. Fifteen years later, dying, he sent for her. ━━━━━━━━━━ Six daughters were born to the king of Bulla. The seventh was a girl too. He did not look at her. He did not name her. He sealed her in a jade chest and gave her to the river. They wrote one word inside her collar. Bari — thrown away. Fifteen years later the king and queen fall ill. The only cure lies in the land of the dead, and one of his own blood must walk there in iron shoes to fetch it. All six daughters refuse. Only then does he remember the seventh. ━━━━━━━━━━ Barigongju is not a story Koreans read. It is sung — by a shaman, over a body, at a rite for the dead. I wanted to keep the three things retellings usually soften: the father's refusal, the meaning of her name, and the ending, where she is offered half the kingdom and refuses it. A daughter thrown out of the world of the living becomes the one who guides the dead out of it. ━━━━━━━━━━ 6 min 50 sec · Korean dialogue · English subtitles Korean captions available (CC) Submitted to the Higgsfield Global Film Festival Directed by Neo Dream Video — Higgsfield Cinema Studio 4.0 Narration — Higgsfield Seed Audio 1.0 Music — Suno Edit — DaVinci Resolve #BARI #Barigongju #KoreanMythology #AIFilm #ShortFilm #Higgsfield #NeoDream