Diane Lindo is a self-taught stop-motion animation artist based in Ontario, Canada, who has worked in the medium since discovering it in 2017. She transforms everyday and thrifted objects, including secondhand Barbie dolls, into surreal narratives shaped by memory, dreams and the unconscious mind. Her gritty, punk-inflected stop-motion shorts explore vulnerability, emotional discomfort and catharsis.
Lindo's process is instinctive: each piece starts from a fragmented storyboard that leaves room to improvise, and her workspace is filled with found objects, oddities and thrifted materials she reworks into her sets and characters. Filming is labor-intensive, requiring around a thousand photographs for each minute of finished video, with each object moved incrementally between shots and the images later stitched together in editing software. She has said she uses the medium as “a self regulation tool and a way to expel stagnant energy from my body”.
