Dream of Splendor synthesizes footage from the 1962 Hong Kong film "The Magnificent Concubine" with footage of a souvenir shop located in Chicago's Chinatown to create an eerie and at times melancholy exploration of the Chinatown chronotope.
As one wanders through the garden on a leisure tour, they find what has been lost in the mists of light and shadow. July Twenty-seventh, Tour of Suzhou Gardens offers a personal path from the aesthetics of experimental cinema to a conversation within Chinese poetic tradition.
