Adam Elliot’s Clayography in Motion 

The bittersweet stop-motion films of Adam Elliot are among the sincerest and most unexpected joys of recent cinema. The Academy Award–winning animator, whose career took off with his 2003 short Harvie Krumpet, works with a deeply personal aesthetic approach he calls “clayography,” using clay to animate stories taken from his life. The resulting films look and feel like no one else’s, meticulously hand-crafted experiences directly from the heart. In conjunction with a new interactive animation section of the Museum’s Behind the Screen exhibition devoted to Elliot’s work, we are delighted to present two days of screenings featuring Elliot’s films, from his early shorts to his new feature Memoir of a Snail, with in-person appearances by Elliot.