Light Pillar
The future. A world covered by winter. Space travelling is an everyday reality. Once thriving, a film production company is now on the brink of bankruptcy. The massive structure with replicas of the Great Sphinx of Giza and the Forbidden City lies buried in snow. Its glory days are long gone. Lonely janitor Zha and a cat that was once cast in films are the only remaining caretakers of this forsaken place. Unable to pay his salary, the owner of the production company offers Zha a pair of VR goggles. Zha gets sucked into a virtual world right away. The woman he meets there takes him on a romantic journey to the Moon. Meanwhile, a film crew arrives in the building to make a film about alien invasion. They want to use the spacious film sets of the building. The final scene of the film involves a complete destruction of the building.
- Directed by: Xu Zao
- Screenplay: Xu Zao
- Photography: Hao Jiayue
- Music: Chen Xiaoshu
- Editing: Yang Chao, Xu Zao
- Sound Engineering: He Wei
- Makeup: Li Jinping
- Production Design: Xu Zao
- Animations: Yang Leiting
A film director, screenwriter, and stage designer. He was born in 1991, in Anshan, in the Chinese province of Liaoning. He is a graduate of the Beijing Film Academy. His short animation ‘No Changes Have Taken in Our Life’ premièred at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and received numerous film awards, both in China and abroad. His sophomore short film ‘Love Music Friend’ was screened at the Shanghai International Film Festival. The film ‘Light Pillar’ is his full-length début.