Tears Instead of Laughter

An Interview with Stop-Motion Animator Adam Elliot

Auteurs-es

  • Paul Risker

Résumé

Memoir of a Snail premiered at the 2024 Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Connecting over Zoom for a virtual interview, Elliot explained that the film was only completed three weeks prior, and he was still in the process of trying to either learn or remember why he'd made it. He semi-jokes, "It was so long ago when we started, and now it's finished, I've got to articulate why I did it and what it means." During his conversation with MSJ, Elliot discussed intertwining reality and fiction, the role the audience play in filling in the gaps, and preferring to make his audience cry instead of laugh.

Biographie de l'auteur-e

Paul Risker

Paul Risker is an independent scholar, freelance film and literary critic, and interviewer. Outside of editing MSJ’s interview and film festival sections, he mainly contributes to PopMatters, although his criticism and interviews have been published by both academic and non-academic publications, that include: Cineaste, Film International, The Quarterly Review of Film and Video and Little White Lies. He remains steadfast in his belief of the need to counter contemporary cultures emphasis on the momentary, by writing for posterity, adding to an ongoing discussion that is essentially us belonging to something that is bigger than ourselves.

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Publié-e

2025-08-19

Numéro

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2025): Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration

Rubrique

Interviews