The Museum of the Transferring Picture (MoMI) has introduced a brand new exhibit titled “Clayography in Movement: Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail,” which is able to open Dec. 20 and run till March 2025.

In celebration of the 2024 animated movie “Memoir of a Snail,” which has earned Golden Globe and Critics Alternative Award nominations, the set up is about to characteristic a sequence of handmade puppets from the film. These designated puppets might be introduced with movie excerpts, 2-D characters from “Memoir of a Snail,” and movie units the place guests could make their very own stop-motion animations.

“Clayography in Movement: Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail” might be a part of the museum’s core exhibition, Behind the Display screen.

Director Adam Elliot used clay puppets within the animated characteristic to embody his life’s themes. “Clayography” is a time period Elliot used to explain his filmmaking work.

“Memoir of a Snail” premiered on the Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Pageant, profitable the Cristal Award for a Function Movie. IFC Movies launched the film within the U.S. on Oct. 25.

On Jan. 3 and 4, the museum can even host a particular screening sequence through which it can play “Memoir of a Snail” along with Elliot’s 2009 characteristic “Mary and Max” in addition to 5 brief movies that may embrace his Oscar-winning movie “Harvie Krumpet.” Elliot might be attending the screening sequence.

Prior to now, the MoMI museum has featured different exhibitions celebrating animation, comparable to “Tim Burton: Drawings (2003),” “Gumby and the Artwork of Cease-Movement Animation (2005),” “The Artwork of Rise of the Guardians (2012),” “What’s Up, Doc? The Animation Artwork of Chuck Jones (2014),” “Plymptoons: Quick Movies and Drawings by Invoice Plympton (2014),” “The World of Anomalisa (2015),” “Reimagining the Cel: Experiments in Animation from the Eighties (2019),” “D’Oh! Animating America’s Favourite Household (2020)” and extra.