PICTURING WONDERLAND
(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

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 & PANEL DISCUSSION - 'Film-Architecture Forum' at the Architectural Association 2025
SCREENING - 'A Rabbits Foot Presents an Evening of Short Films at Reference Point' 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/nowhere