Abstract

This essay analyzes the link that studio LAIKA draws between the unseen spaces its characters explore and the invisible labor behind its films. I read the stop-motion frame as a porous boundary whose (re)crossing constitutes an allegorical deconstruction of the animation process. In doing so, I examine puppet animation’s relationship with industrial self-reflexivity.

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