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Palace of Desire, also known as Da Ming Gong Ci, is a Chinese television series based on the life story of Princess Taiping, a daughter of China's only female emperor Wu Zetian. Directed by Li Shaohong and Zeng Nianping, the series starred Chen Hong, Zhou Xun, Gui Yalei and Winston Chao in the leading roles. It was first broadcast on CCTV-8 in mainland China on March 30, 2000.
The program tells the story of six new residents who work together to uncover the ultimate truth about Apartment 11 as they deduce a mysterious case.
Ten years after surviving the massacre of his clan, Shen Song, now a humble chef, is drawn back into his quest for justice when a festival fire uncovers hidden remains. Appointed as the emperor’s civilian investigator, he tackles a series of strange cases, uncovering conspiracies tied to his family’s tragic past.
Juana is a woman who wants to publish her book on which she has worked so much, with the help of her friend Elisa, she believes that she can make her dream come true, however, time passes and she has no news of her and her book
“Film & Photographic Cosmic Travellers such as Wilfred Ukpong call forth non-prescriptive, non-linear readings of the past, and demand that the kaleidoscopic condition of personal, cultural and national memory is forged into new and different jazz-like rhythmic formations. Ukpong’s visual world is a place of no one direction, no solid state, as in the realm of African Cosmologies, political memory functions and agitates within personal and political space, positioning both the audience and the maker not as subjects fixed in any given moment, but as active time-bending agents continuously engaged across different spaces, temporalities and universes.” (Mark Sealy, ABP)
