Dänemark, im 17. Jahrhundert. Die Halbwaise Ophelia wird in Zeiten des Krieges von Königin Gertrude unter ihre Fittiche genommen. Sie wird zu ihrer Lieblingszofe, was auch dem jungen Hamlet nicht verborgen bleibt, der sich in die wunderschöne und kluge Frau verliebt. Die beiden beginnen eine heimliche, leidenschaftliche Affäre. Doch als Hamlets Vater stirbt und sein Onkel Claudius den Thron besteigt, ziehen sich dunkle Wolken über dem Palast zusammen...

A dark comedy about an eclectic group of strangers invited to a downtown bar by a mutual ex-lover, Nikki Franklyn, a maddeningly sexy, unpredictable and possibly insane young woman who's recently gotten out of prison for murdering her last ex-boyfriend. The party really gets started when Nikki herself arrives, hauling her latest lover and fiancee, the morally challenged lawyer who'd been handling her case. She's mysterious about her intentions and her current and former lovers soon realize they are all caught in one of her brilliant, mischievous mind-games with possible deadly consequences. By the night's end, revenge will be had, new romance will bloom, and Nikki will have delivered on her reputation as the Sexy Evil Genius.

This three-channel video installation by James Benning shows three scenes from David Wark Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915). The two-minute-long screen arrangement of imperceptibly moving images alludes to the beginning of racism. The three screens each show a solider in the American Civil War, black slaves picking cotton in the field, and imposing KKK.