Client: Creative Production Services
Creative: Christian Wagstaff, Keith Courtney, Michael Mouritz
Director & Cinematographer: Michael Mouritz
Editor: Michael Mouritz
Poem: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Narration: Tom O'Bedlam

My role: Creative concept, treatment writing, mood board, production & timelines, directing, cinematography, editing, VFX, SFX, colour grading.

A door is a beginning and an end, a promise and a warning. What waits on the other side is limited only by the imagination and decided only by an action. Step across the threshold of you.

1000 Doors is the latest installation by CPS' Christian Wagstaff & Keith Courtney, an immersive and atmospheric work that transported audiences into a realm that at once felt new and eerily familiar. The experience launched at the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2018.

Drawing on the poem "Haunted Houses" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, we crafted the film from the perspective of a traveller slowly drifting through each room. Each edit is slow and deliberate, leaving frames to linger in the audience's mind.

The film was used by both CPS and the Melbourne Festival to promote the work, and was distributed across Melbourne Festival's social platforms and online. Additionally, a concept trailer was initially produced to tease and pitch the idea to festivals and stakeholders.