Escape Room Teaser
Lilies & Dust
A haunting teaser made from hard sunlight, antique rooms, practical dust and the atmosphere already hiding in the space.
- Year
- 2023
- Client
- Seymour Nixen / Sydney Fringe Festival
- Location
- Lola’s Attic, The Rocks
My role
- Director
- Producer
- Cinematographer
- Editor
- Lighting
- In-Camera Effects
- Sound Design
- Colour Grade
The project
Lilies & Dust invited people into a mysterious escape room where they had to save a cat from the underworld. The teaser needed to suggest that story without explaining away its strangeness.
The approach
A short schedule and bright Sydney sun initially seemed opposed to the dark, otherworldly mood. Instead, the constraints became the visual language: a blown-out shaft of light became the reveal, while dust lifted directly from the room created a practical particle effect in camera.
What remained
The result is tactile and deliberately incomplete, a glimpse of a world that asks the audience to step inside and finish the story themselves.
Visual gallery
Inside the world
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