9 Nov 2024

Memoir of a Snail

From Saturday Morning, 11:45 am on 9 November 2024
Australian animator and filmmaker Adam Elliot on the set of 'Memoir of a Snail' with one of his claymation characters.

Animator and filmmaker Adam Elliot on the set of 'Memoir of a Snail' with one of his claymation characters. Photo: Madman Entertainment

Academy Award winning writer/director Adam Elliot is an Australian animator and filmmaker based in Melbourne. Established as an auteur of independent stop-motion animation, Adam invented his own word to describe his work, clayographies.

In his latest film Memoir of a Snail, every single object in the film is a real tangible object, with over 7000 individual items handcrafted by Adam's team to bring the film to life.

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