Sand Movies

Based on the novel "Šta bi učinio Zobec?" (What Would Zobec Do?) by Svetozar Vlajković. It's a short movie about a young man who is...

A man who used to be a political brigade commissar offended the society. Twenty years after the war, he comes to visit the old monument erected in...

Five siblings attempt to become the first family in history to complete the Marathon Des Sables. But the world's toughest foot race pushes them to...

A lyrical and funny story about the hard life of a village on the coast suffering from the high winds.

It is cold and dark. In between surreal waves and the morning haze, we catch a glimpse of the emerging glows. The sea breeze wiggles and writhes,...

Characters morph into objects and each other in this stop motion animation made with sand.

What appears at first glance to be a patterned floor of traditional Islamic tiles is in fact an intricate installation of hand dyed sand. In a...

A haunting sand animation tribute to the victims of the Chernobyl disaster. Through shifting images of innocence, suffering, and loss, Kseniya...

Ruiz’s short about Pieter Wiersma, a Dutch sculptor who makes intricate sandcastles.

Based on an original concept by John Cameron Mitchell, this stunning sand animation merges haute couture with the magic of ephemeral art. Through the...

A short 1979 sand animation celebrating women's spirituality with 80-year-old lesbian poet Elsa Gidlow reading her work "What If."

The Lady of the Sand is presenting her second sand film devoted to help a Russian child suffering with cancer. A month earlier Kseniya has created a...

A sequel to You Are Always Nearby, this poignant sand animation continues the story of a family separated by the Second World War. Through...

Osiris' Gift is a short stop motion animated film that follows an explorer in a desert searching for mythical 'immortality mushrooms'.

After the enormous success of You Are Always Nearby, Simonova presented her next piece, titled Don't Be Too Late!, at the final of Ukraine's Got...

At Eurovision 2011, Ukrainian sand artist Kseniya Simonova joined singer Mika Newton on stage for the performance of the song "Angel." During the...

In November 2012, Kseniya Simonova presented this new epic story, one of her most aesthetic and beautiful sand ballads, inspired by her Russian roots.

Commissioned for the 2011 Monte-Carlo Amber Chess Championship, this spellbinding live sand animation turns the game of chess into an epic, fluid...

Simonova recreated dramatic and multifaceted history of Lebanon at the request of representatives of the government of the country. Her sand film was...

A sand animation piece dedicated to children born with congenital heart disease in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Created in connection with a pediatric...