Li Miao
Winner Profile
Best Art Direction
Art Director, Moon Man
Jury Citation
The art direction of Moon Man blends science-fiction elements with a comic style. It builds the visual spectacle of science fiction through realistic, lived-in detail, and its set design adds a retro feel to a technological base. Its colour, design and spatial construction give the film's narrative and characterisation a solid science-fiction look. Its design and execution reflect the exploration under way in the industrialisation of Chinese cinema. Winner of Best Art Direction.
Moon Man: Synopsis
To protect Earth from an asteroid impact, humanity deploys the Moon Shield Project on the Moon. When meteorites strike early and all personnel evacuate, maintenance worker Dugu Yue (Shen Teng) misses the evacuation notice from team leader Ma Lanxing (Ma Li) by accident and is left alone on the Moon. The Moon Shield Project then fails, Dugu Yue becomes "the last human in the universe", and he begins a life on the Moon in which he gives up on everything...