Do you ever look in the mirror in the day and wonder where all the decades went? If so then you can take center – a little! At least your lifestyle does not display before your sight in a few brief moments as it does in this amazing movie by Ramon and Pedro (aka Antoine Tinguely and Laurent Fauchère). The Reflection or Le Mirroir in its unique People from france reveals a youthful boy becoming a man and we get to observe the actual proof of some of his rituals of passageway until, successfully, the lighting go off.
Between 1405 and 1433, during the Ming era, Chinese Admiral Zheng He, who was also the court eunuch, commanded seven expeditionary voyages as far away as East Africa and Middle East. These expeditions, known in Chinese history as the treasure voyages, consisted of hundreds of ships of enormous dimensions carrying a crew as large as 28,000 and great amounts of treasures. The purpose of the voyages were to project Chinese power and wealth to the outside world, as well as to establish imperial control over the maritime trade.