(Narrative Short, 2026)
Set to be released in 2027
Featuring:
Jackson Hale, Maude Elms, Ninon Vinsonneau & Christina Wilson
Shot on 16mm Film
Distance, longing and departure are told through a series of answer machine messages.
Written & Directed by: Alfie Elms
Producer: Maude Elms
Executive Producers: Clare Conville & Harriet Vyner
Director of Photography: Finn Boxer
Original Score by: Lucas Wide
Sound Designer: Panos Chountoulidis
Editor & Analogue Animator: Alfie Elms
Colourist: Oliver Banks Thompson at 1920VFX
Grade Producer: Belle McLeary at 1920VFX
Additional 16mm Animations: ANA Projects
Kit Rental: Not/Nowhere & Four Corners Film
Film Processing and Scanning: On8Mil
Shot on Kodak Film
Padula Productions and Cheerio Publishing
Producer: Maude Elms
Executive Producers: Clare Conville & Harriet Vyner
Director of Photography: Finn Boxer
Original Score by: Lucas Wide
Sound Designer: Panos Chountoulidis
Editor & Analogue Animator: Alfie Elms
Colourist: Oliver Banks Thompson at 1920VFX
Grade Producer: Belle McLeary at 1920VFX
Additional 16mm Animations: ANA Projects
Kit Rental: Not/Nowhere & Four Corners Film
Film Processing and Scanning: On8Mil
Shot on Kodak Film
Padula Productions and Cheerio Publishing
(Documentary, 2026)
Currently in post production
Directed and Filmed by: Alfie Elms
Chimimora and Padula Productions Presents
Chimimora and Padula Productions Presents
(Narrative Short, 8min, 2025)
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Featuring:
Naomi Yang, Lucy Sheen & Nadia Shaikh
Shot on 16mm filmHand-drawn animations by Ana Projects
Told through a sequence of meals observed from a single fixed point, Apus Apus charts Bea’s everyday existence in the city, tracing the textures of the landscape and the presence of the ever-changing community.
OFFICIAL SELECTION - The Film-Maker’s Cooperative / New American Cinema Group New Year, New Work Film Festival, New York, 2026
OFFICIAL SELECTION & JURY’S PICK - RE:FRAME Moving Image Festival, Berlin, 2026
OFFICIAL SELECTION - HK.KINO Berlin, 2026
OFFICIAL SELECTION - INEFF, The Experimental Fiction Film Festival, 2026
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Fotogenia Festival, Mexico, 2026
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Highland Film Festival, Tokyo, 2026
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Pebbles Underground Film Festival, 2026
GROUP EXHIBITION - City Noise presented by ‘Unknown Person’ at Zimmt Gallery Leipzig, 2026
SCREENING - WMA HK & HK.KINO BERLIN Presents Where the Flâneur Lingers curated by Erika Kwok at ‘P60 at Prinzanellee Berlin’, 2026
SCREENING - CHEERIO Publishing Presents A Night at the Garden Cinema, London, 2025
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, 9min, 2023)
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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 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
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Braziers International Film Festival 2023
OFFICIAL SELECTION - A&E, Accessibility and Environment Film Festival 2024
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Short Focus Film Festival 2023
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Filmmakers For Change Festival 2023
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Ealing Film Festival 2023
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Earl's Court International Film Festival 2023
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Nightpiece Film Festival 2023
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 - DoBeDo 'Reely Film Club' at Grace’s Mews Gallery 2026
SCREENING & PANEL DISCUSSION - 'Film-Architecture Forum' at the Architectural Association 2025
SCREENING - 'A Rabbits Foot Presents’ at Reference Point' 2025
SCREENING - 'Movements' Showcase at the Arnolfini Gallery Bristol 2025
SCREENING - Light Beams Under A Bridge Vol. 7 2024
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/nowhere
(Narrative Short, 11min, 2026)
Set to be released in 2026
Featuring:
Jackson Hale, ‘Hornet’ & Faye Ziegler
Recently landed, L O makes sense of this new planet as he wanders through the empty streets of London.
Writer & Director: Alfie Elms
Producer: Maude Elms
Exec Producer: Caroline Tod Richardson
Director of Photography: Finn Boxer
First Assistant Director: Pip Woolley
First Assistant Camera: Max Rollason
Location Sound Recordist: Alessio Ceccangeli
Art Department Standby: Sylvie Field
Runner: Ben Webb
Composer: Sam Greening
Editors: Henry Thackray & Alfie Elms
Edit House: The Quarry
Sound Designer: Finn Boxer
Colourist: Oliver Banks Thompson
Grade House & Additional VFX: 1920VFX
Grade Producer: Molly Russell at 1920VFX
VFX Artists: Toby Kingsley & Coby Cash
16mm Animations: Ana Projects
Archive: Markham Henry-Bailey, Amateur Film, Edmonton, 1965
Kit Rental: Junction Collective & SL Vision
Film Earls Court and Padula Productions
NATTY WYLAH
(Music Video, 4min, 2023)
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Analogue animations by Ana ProjectsFeaturing clothing provided by Wales Bonner, Sonny Jake and Simone Rocha Archive
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 Archive
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
SUNKEN
(Music Video, 3min, 2020)
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From the EP, Hometime
Shot on 16mm Film
Analogue Animations by Ana Projects
Costume provided by Simone Rocha Archive
Director: Alfie Elms
Director of Photography: Blue Laybourne
Creative Director: Poppy Billingham
Editor: Finn Billingham
Animation: ANA Projects
Film Development by Cinelab London
(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