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INDUSTRY№ 01
Memoir of a Snail's Oscar campaign cost more than the film and that is the system working as designed
The campaign budget for a $7 million claymation feature exceeded the production budget, and Screen Australia helped foot the bill.
ODETTE MALOUF18.02.2025
MUSIC№ 02
The score for Memoir of a Snail moves at the speed of grief
Elena Kats-Chernin's score for Adam Elliot's claymation opus is patient, fragile, and refuses to tell the audience when to cry.
KIERAN BOUSTANY14.01.2025
FILM№ 03
Australia sent a claymation snail to the Oscars and it was the right call
The selection of Memoir of a Snail as Australia's Oscar entry is a bet on craft over scale, and the bet is sound.
BRONTE HAUGHEY22.12.2024
ESSAYS№ 04
Australian cinema in 2024 was everywhere and nowhere at the same time
The year's biggest Australian film cost half a billion dollars and the year's best cost seven million, and nobody quite knew how to hold both in the same sentence.
MARA DENG10.12.2024
ESSAYS№ 05
Adam Elliot makes grief out of clay because clay holds its shape when everything else falls apart
Elliot's characters are made of plasticine and painted with fingerprints, and the imperfection is not an aesthetic choice; it is the whole argument.
MARA DENG20.11.2024
INDUSTRY№ 06
The AACTA nominations told the industry what it already knew and added one surprise
Memoir of a Snail led with nine nominations, which was expected; the surprise was where the television categories landed.
ODETTE MALOUF18.11.2024
FILM№ 07
Adam Elliot made grief out of clay and it holds its shape
Elliot's second feature is a hoarder's inventory of loss, rendered in plasticine and voiced by Sarah Snook, and it is the best Australian film of 2024.
BRONTE HAUGHEY06.11.2024