Adam Elliot (born January 2, 1972 in Berwick, Victoria, Australia) is an independent Australian authors, director and producer of animated stop-motion live in Melbourne, Australia. The five films have collectively participated in more than seven hundred film festivals and have received over a hundred awards, including the Academy Award for Harvie Krumpet and five Annecy Cristals. Elliot calls himself an auteur filmmaker and each of his films has a bitter nature for them. He is not involved with commercial work and works exclusively on his own film project. Based loosely on his family and friends, Elliot calls each of his works, Clayography - clay animated biography. Each movie takes up to five years to complete. He is best known for the use of traditional 'in-camera' techniques, which means every prop and character is a 'miniature' real handmade object. Elliot does not use digital enhancements or computer-generated imagery to enhance his visual aesthetics. His company, Adam Elliot Clayographies, produces Elliot's films and work practices following a French auteur methodology. Every movie has been voiced by famous actors including, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Geoffrey Rush, Eric Bana, William McInnes, Barry Humphries and John Flaus. Elliot was also a voting member of the Academy of Art and Motion Picture Science and in 1999 was awarded The Young Achiever of the Year for Victoria.
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Biography
Elliot grew up in the Australian outback on a shrimp farm with his father, Noel, a retired acrobatic clown, his mother Valerie, a hairdresser, and three siblings, Samantha, Lukas and Joshua. After the farm went bankrupt, Elliot's father moved his family to the city of Melbourne, where he bought a small hardware store. A very shy child, Elliot is very creative and constantly draws and keeps things out of the found objects. He attended Primary Pinewood Primary School on the outskirts of Mount Waverley and later Haileybury College, Keysborough, where he was proficient in the Arts, English Literature, Photography, Drawing and Sculpture. Elliot had an early ambition to become a veterinarian but did not get the grades necessary for university entrance. In extra-curricular activities Elliot is a member of the Highland Pipe Band at school. He also pursued acting and in his final year was awarded the highest honor of the school, A.G. Greenwood Trophy for extraordinary dramatic performances like Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes played "The Great Cardinal Tosca Murder". Born with hereditary physiological tremor, Elliot enters his inability into his visual aesthetics with his work featuring uneven lines and organic nuances. After completing his twelve year, he spent five years hand-painted T-shirts in St Kilda, Victoria's market Esplanade Craft. In 1996 he completed a postgraduate diploma in film and television, specializing in animation, at the Victorian College of the Arts. There he made his first stopmotion film, Uncle , which won many film awards and participated in various international and local film festivals. Since then, working with the Australian Film Commission, Screen Australia, Victoria Movie (formerly Cinemedia), and Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Elliot has made four more short films: Cousin , Brother , Harvie Krumpet , Erni Biscuit and features Mary and Max .
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Uncle (1996)
Created in 1996, Elliot's first short film was made at the Victorian College of the Arts under the care of Sarah Watt, Robert Stephenson, and Ann Shenfield. With a six minute walk Uncle won many international awards including the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Australian Animated Short. The film was taken with a 16mm Bolex camera using a completely traditional stopmotion technique, and edited in Steenbeck, a now outdated linear editing system. These traditional techniques teach Elliot a craft that will influence his later work and give a strong appreciation for handmade movies. To date he has refused to apply any digital effects to his films despite economic and aesthetic pressures. Budget for Uncle is approximately A $ 4000. Uncle is semi-biographical, about anonymous uncle narrated by anonymous niece, voiced by William McInnes. Very static and minimalist, the story is driven by narration and balance between comedy and tragedy, humor, and pathos. Using powerful archetypes, the story has a universal and eternal nuance. To date, the film is still popular at the Film Festival (often as part of a retrospective at Elliot). This first brief by Elliot sets the tone for all subsequent work and is a reference point for visual and aesthetic styles. The story is loosely based on Elliot's own relationship with his eight uncles, but despite factual references, he always emphasizes the story; for him the real event should not dictate the flow. In interviews he often quotes the popular proverb, that "the truth should not hinder the good storyline".
Cousin (1998)
Made in 1997, Cousin is Elliot's first professional film funded by the Australian Film Commission, SBS Independent and Victoria Film. Like Uncle, Elliot chose a minimalist approach and a backup narrative to move a very simple memory of a childhood relationship he had with his cousin (based on a real-life cousin), who had cerebral palsy. Like Uncle , Cousin has a grayscale palette but is shot in color stock. The film was taken in a small storage unit on the outskirts of Moorabin in Melbourne at a facility owned by his father. This time Elliot used AVID digital equipment to edit the recording footage on a 16mm film. Cousins ​​ have been featured in many film festivals and won both AFI's Elliot Awards for Best Australian animation. Narrated again by William McInnes, the budget for Cousins ​​ is $ 42,000 AUD.
Brother (1999)
Thanks to the success of his first two shorts, the Brother became a natural conclusion to what is now called a trilogy. Funded by the Australian Film Commission and SBS Independent, this briefly explores the childhood memories of Elliot's brother. In several interviews, Elliot states that this is his most factual and autobiographical film and that the Brother is actually himself.
marks the elevation of Elliot's minimalist and aesthetic approach. He made it into a friend's bedroom above a falafel shop on the bohemian outskirts of Fitzroy, Melbourne. Elliot set strict rules for himself: the film must be made in a completely analogous way using a limited number of tools and equipment. In keeping with his pure ideals, he edited it in Steenbeck, refusing the offer of computer use. Like the previous two chapters of the trilogy, Brother is narrated by William McInnes. It travels to many international festivals, winning two Elliot AFI Awards: one for Best Australian Short Animation and one for Best Short Screenplay Australia. The budget for Brother is $ 52,000 AUD.
Harvie Krumpet (2003)
Running for 23 minutes, the next film marks Elliot's slow effort into color and the formation of a much more complicated, longer and dynamic plot structure. While still utilizing the narrator's use to move the story, the animation becomes more dynamic and the storyline is more complex. The film was remade in his father's storage facility and was the first time Elliot received substantial help from full-time producer Melanie Coombs and two assistant-making models, Michael Bazeley and Sophie Raymond. He also used mentoring skills Darren Burgess, an experienced animator from Adelaide. The film took over a year to shoot on the modified Super 16mm Bolex and was the first time Adam used new digital software that helped in viewing the captured frame. This new software has revolutionized stop motion animation, so animators no longer have to wait daily and can see their work played back in real time as soon as the frames are collected. They no longer have to live "blind". Elliot's average shot between five and ten seconds of recording per day. Budget for movies is AUD380,000; it was narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush, with character voices by Kamahl, John Flaus and Julie Forsythe. In 2004 the film won an Academy Award for Best Short Animation. Harvie Krumpet has played in over 100 film festivals and won over forty major awards. In 2005, the film was named one of the top 100 animated films of all time by the world's largest animation festival board in Annecy, France.
Mary and Max (2009)
The first feature film Elliot had his world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009 and was the first animated film and the first Australian film in 25-year festival history to be screened in the coveted opening night slot. The 92-minute film was made in Elliot's hometown of Melbourne and spent five years finishing it for 8.3 million Australian dollars. The project requires a crew of more than 120 people and a team of six animators who constantly shoot for 57 weeks. For his narrative, Elliot used the services of iconic comedian and stage Barry Humphries. Max is voiced by Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mary by Toni Collette and Damian by Eric Bana. Molly Meldrum and Renee Geyer provide a cameo sound. Elliot determined that the young Mary should be voiced by an actual eight-year-old girl and, after auditioning over 40 actresses, ultimately chose Bethany Whitmore. From March 2 to June 6, 2010, Mary and Max was exhibited in a free exhibition at the Australian Center for Mobile Image (ACMI). "Mary and Max: The Exhibition" provides a behind-the-scenes picture of film making. The items on display include character models, costumes, storyboards, props (carefully crafted small glasses, working typewriters, light bulbs) and animator footage in the workplace. The film is currently included in IMDb as one of the 250 highest rated films of all time.
Ernie Biscuit (2015)
Elliot's most recent clayography, Ernie Biscuit, is a short 20 minute animated short black-and-white animated film exploring the life of a deaf Parisian taxidermist. In a style similar to the winner of his Academy Award-winning Harvie Krumpet, this film is a bitter biography that has elements of comedy and tragic. For the first time, Elliot has explored a stronger love theme, and his overall style is dynamic and fast-paced. It is lighter in tone for other shorts and is narrated by old collaborator John Flaus, who has voiced Elliot's previous films Harvie Krumpet, Mary and Max and Uncle i> The film has been selected to be an official competition at the Annecy International Animation Festival and premieres Europe in June 2015. Ernie Biscuit won Best Short Animation at the 5th AACTA Awards.
References
External links
- Adam Elliot's official website
- Adam Elliot at IMDb
- Mary and Max's official site
- Olivier Cotte (2007) The secret of Oscar-winning animation: Behind the scenes of 13 classic short animations. (Creation '"Harvie Krumpet" ) Focal Press. ISBN 978-0-240-52070-4
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