Quote:
"The Street, perhaps Leaf's most celebrated animation, features images created using under-lit ink on glass, with individual frames generated by small changes to the previous one. This technique, combined with the narrative, produces two senses of space. The first is one of enclosure, while the second is one of transformation. The contrast between these creates the particular spatial dynamics of the animation, where being held in abeyance while waiting for a death in the family has to give way in the end to that inevitable change."
-- Aylish Wood

Source:
Wood, Aylish. "Re-animating space." Animation 1, no. 2 (2006). (p. 140)