November 4, 2024
Animation
Film
Grace Ebert

Given that mosaic typically requires a cement base to secure the individual fragments, it’s unusual to find the medium in stop-motion animation, a technique requiring that components move a microscopic distance in each frame.

But during a 10-day residency in Tarusa, Russia, a group of artists working with the collaborative Invisible Friends decided to try their hands at the unconventional approach. The result? “The sky has no edge,” a poetic narrative about looking up that’s crafted almost entirely from mosaic.

Conceived in five days and filmed in the same amount of time, the dreamlike animation flows through a patchwork of scenes devised by individual artists, all of which are then stitched together. […]

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