(Narrative Short, 8min, 2025)
Featuring:
Naomi Yang, Lucy Sheen & Nadia Shaikh
Shot on 16mm filmHand-drawn animations by Ana Projects
Apus Apus centres around the character of Bea, whose everyday existence in the city is charted by a series of meals. This film forms part of a triptych of shorts entitled III: Turritopsis Dohrnii, Apus Apus and Grylloidea. Three short interconnected films providing a glimpse into moments of the everyday. Predominantly captured in single, fixed, shots and filmed on 16mm colour stock, III looks at situations and scenarios within which characters react to both one-another, along with the environment around them. As well as sharing form, these moments are tied together by the idea of the natural, its intricacies, beauties, imperfections and deviations.
Writer & Director: Alfie Elms
Producer: Maude Elms
Director of Photography: Finn Boxer
First Assistant Director: Pip Woolley
Gaffer & Camera Assistant: Max Rollason
Sound Recordist: Luke Predeth
Art Department Standby: Sylvie Field
Costume Standby: Rowena Guy de Quin
Additional Costume by: Ilana Blumberg
Production Assistant: Eve Kelly
Composer: Lucas Wide
Sound Designer: Benet Serra
Editor: Alfie Elms
Hand Drawn Animations, Titles & Credits Designed by Ana Projects
Analogue Animators: Jack Greeley-Ward, Liam Painter, Trixie Thurner & Maude Elms
Post House: 1920VFX
Colourist: Oliver Banks Thompson
Grade Producer: Molly Russell
Film Processing by Cinelab London
Kit Rental: Junction Collective & Artefact
(Short Doc, 8min, 2023)
Shot on 16mm Film
Hand-drawn and scratched animations by Ana Projects Distributed by Rabbit’s Foot Films
An experimental snapshot of an individual’s experience living with a degenerative blindness. Picturing Wonderland explores Maud Rowell’s fascinating relationship with the colours of the world around her as well as the use of the medium of analogue photography as a form of documentation and hobby.
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM - Novella Film Festival 2023
BEST LOW BUDGET SHORT FILM - KINO London Short Film Festival 2023
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM & BEST SCREENPLAY - Screen Power Film Festival 2023
BEST SCREENPLAY - Screen Power Film Festival 2023
BEST UK EXPERIMENTAL SHORT - The Short Cinema 2024
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM - Small Axe, Radical Short Film Awards 2023
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM - Hastings Rocks International Film Festival 2024
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2023
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Leeds International Film Festival 2023
OFFICIAL SELECTION - REAL Documentary Festival 2023
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Sunday Shorts Film Festival Lisbon 2024
NOMINATION - BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM - Sunday Shorts 2024
NOMINATIONS - BEST DIRECTOR & BEST EDITING- KINO London Short Film Festival 2023
NOMINATION - BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - Screen Power Film Festival 2023
NOMINATIONS - BEST DOCUMENTARY, BEST ORIGINAL SCORE & EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD - Covent Garden Film Festival 2024
NOMINATIONS - BEST FILM, BEST DOCUMENTARY, BEST DIRECTOR & BEST SOUND DESIGNER - Greenwich Film Festival 2023
SHORTLISTED - A Rabbit's Foot Short Film Competition 2025
SCREENING - Light Beams Under A Bridge Vol. 7 2024
SCREENING - 'Movements' Showcase at the Arnolfini Gallery Bristol 2025
Writer: Maud Rowell
Director: Alfie Elms
Producer: Jack Jeffrey
Director of Photography: Finn Boxer
Lighting Designer: Satu Streatfield
Sound Recordist and Sound Designer: Waris Albakri
Composer: Patrick Fitzgerald
Film edited by Alfie Elms, Maud Rowell and Jack Jeffery
Animations by Ana Projects
Animators: Alice Hale, Yasmine Tara Opre Djedje-Fisher-Azoume and Jack Greeley-Ward
Colourist: Ollie Thompson at Electric Theatre Collective
Electric Theatre Collective Producer: Rita Aboderin
Title Design by Nabila Rouabah
Film Processing by Cinelab London
Kit Rental: not/nowhe
NATTY WYLAH
(Music Video, 4min, 2023)
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Analogue animations by Ana ProjectsClothing by Wales Bonner, Sonny Jake and Simone Rocha
Moth Wings featured on the EP, Willowisp released on Scenic Route
Director: Alfie Elms
Producer: Nabila Rouabah
Director of Photography: Blue Laybourne
1st AC: Billy Gadd
Gaffer: Finn Boxer
1st AD: Elifcan Yazgün
Production Assistant: Eva James
Production Assistant: Júlia Led
Set Dec: Sol Cuming
Edit: Jack Greeley-Ward and Alfie Elms
Animations by Ana Projects
Grade: Ollie Thompson at ETC Colour
Clothing by Wales Bonner, Sonny Jake and Simone Rocha
16mm development: On8mil
(Short Doc, 4min, 2022)
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Daily the Sun Slits its Own Ghost’s Throat Written by Amina Saïd
Poem Performed by Maryem Abayed
A photography series was published and released alongside the film.
Set to the words of ‘Daily the Sun Slits Its Own Ghost’s Throat’ provided by Tunisian poet Amina Saïd, SNCFT is a short portrait of a journey along the Tunisian railway system. Accompanying Amina’s poetry, which is performed by Tunis resident Maryem Abayed, is an original score composed by the film’s cinematographer Finn Boxer.
Director: Alfie Elms
Producers: Abraham Elton, Jack Jeffery & Pip Woolley
Director of Photography & Original Score: Finn Boxer
(Short Doc, 14min, 2019)
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Featuring:
Patricia Brady, Catherine 'Di' Brady, Sean 'John' Brady, Phoebe Gorley & Trudy Harrison.
A portrait of the Cumbrian coastline, its landscape, industry and people. West of the Lakes uses a collection of personal narratives intertwined with a visual exploration of the region to quietly explore the impact the nuclear industry has had upon the area and its residents.
A published photography series was released alongside the film.
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Little Wing Film Festival 2020
Director: Alfie Elms
Producer: Jack Jeffrey
Director of Photography: Finn Boxer
(Narrative Short, 5min, 2025)
Jack Jeffrey & Pip Woolley
A contemporary interpretation of the Norse narravtive poem Hymiskvðam appearing in Poetica Edda.
To be released in 2025
Director: Alfie Elms
Director of Photography: Finn Boxer
SUNKEN
(Music Video, 3min, 2020)
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From the EP, Hometime
Shot on 16mm Film
Analogue Animations by Ana Projects
Costume by Simone Rocha Archive
Director: Alfie Elms
Director of Photography: Blue Laybourne
Creative Director: Poppy Billingham
Editor: Finn Billingham
Animation: ANA Projects
Film Development byCinelab London