ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the work of Oscar-winning Australian director Adam Elliot. Adam Elliot studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, Australia, in 1996 to gain his postgraduate diploma. His characters, wandering through time and space in search of companionship and of a sense of self and belonging, are marked by difference through disability. They are set apart from others and, as their difference is perceived as such, they become labelled as 'misfits'. Difference becomes immediately identifiable through the imperfections of clay. Goffman's theory on difference states that ' 'undesired differentness' from the 'normal' provides the basis for stigma'. Migrants are less 'acted upon by the larger society' today; many are able to contradict stereotypes and generate 'new and different images of themselves'. Difference marks Elliot's films as significant. In Adam Elliot's work, place is framed within wandering and remains unsettled and unsettling.
