Mary and Max
This end-of-year cycle invites audiences to discover select 35mm prints from in our collection, creating dynamic contrasts in eras, styles, and cultures from one film to the next.
A young Australian woman, Mary, has a correspondence with Max, an autistic Jewish man from New York. This fragile friendship allows them to face the setbacks of their lives.
Adam Elliot
Adam Elliot is an independent animator and visual artist based in Melbourne Australia. His animated films and imagery are what he calls, Clayographies, clay animated biographies based on the bittersweet lives of his family and friends. He has created seven animated films including two feature films, Mary and Max (2009), and Memoir of a Snail (2024). His first feature film, Mary and Max, was included in IMDb’s Top 250 Films of all time. Popular on Netflix, the film is currently being developed into a Broadway Musical, and to date there have been six stage adaptations produced in Europe. His films have been voiced by some of the world’s leading actors, including, Sarah Snook, Jacki Weaver, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Geoffrey Rush, Barry Humphries, Eric Bana and Toni Collette. Viewed by millions of people around the world his works have participated in over a thousand film festivals and won over 100 awards, including the 2004 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Harvie Krumpet (2003).
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