(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 one 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 all 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