Overtly handmade and so very moving: Adam Elliot’s Memoir of A Snail is a stop motion triumph

By Jack McGrath, Lecturer in Animation at the University of Newcastle, University of Newcastle

Stop motion films are by their nature a remarkable feat. When you know a movie has been carefully crafted, over several years and through thousands of photographs of handmade sets and characters, this alone makes it a delight to watch.

But when the story is also deep, thought-provoking and at times laugh-out-loud funny, this takes the medium to a whole new level. Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail is such a film.

Told through stop motion animation using clay (otherwise known as claymation), the film…

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