micro/Maker by Loose Leaf Transmissions
Aug 25, 2026 · 16 min · 9 segments
**Beyza Yazgan** discusses her deep connection to visual art and stop-motion animation, focusing on Passage, a handmade collage animation created alongside her music. Drawing from childhood memories…
... pictures in it, you know? Like old paintings or like sculptures and things like that.
And then I started cutting, hours and hours of cutting, and I had so many characters, like [laughs] backgrounds, you know.
Then I started doing collage, created scenes, and then it started to s- create a s- a story, like very surreal story though.
Something in my mind and I, I followed it after that, like, you know, uh, created the, the setup for animating it.
And, um, I think it's like three minutes long or something like that, so it took a very long time-
The story in that animation is like, I thought about, you know, the Mario game back then on the Atari.
And there was like, like you were constantly running to something, like [laughs] obstacles.
And the f- the main theme for this animation, I want something like that, like I s- go on a journey and things happen.
You know, passage is about like a change, like you transform into something else through the journey you have been to.
So the, the main thing was that in the animation, like at the end you transform to something else.
And so was this like your first time working with stop-motion animation or have, had you done that before as well?
I've done it for like two, two music videos for my songs during like high school, college times.
I, I, at some point I thought about like changing m- my career [laughs] to become-
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