The Oscar-winning filmmaker’s Memoir of a Snail has landed 15 years after his last one. Such is the nature of stop-motion animation.
Had he taken the number 1 tram as planned, Adam Elliot might never have ended up winning an Oscar and becoming the most acclaimed practitioner of claymation in the country. , a twin born with a hare lip, who develops a fascination with snails; something about the way they build up a hard protective outer layer resonates with her.
To write, he says, “I have to be angry about something – or not angry, but I have to have a sense of injustice.”was the death of his father, who had been a vaudevillian and clown. “He was a collector/hoarder, as is Mum, who’s still alive, and my brothers and my sister and I were trawling through all the stuff, and I was really angry with him for dying and also for having all this hoard,” says Elliot.
“COVID was fantastic, I had a great time,” he says. “I loved it, because the film got so developed, it was so ready to go. By the time we finally got that money, I had drawn everything, every production design was done. I feel this film’s probably the most polished one I’ve done, and it’s thanks to COVID.”has brought some unexpected benefits. It is hitting cinemas at a moment when Snook’s name is a real draw, and stop-motion is suddenly in vogue, in part perhaps, as a reaction to the rise of AI.
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