Performance Movies

Created in collaboration with the New York beatboxers Kid Lucky and Shockwave, and the spoken word artist Vocab, “Beatbox” portrays sound...

RMB City Opera is an experimental theatrical play inspired by the ‘Eight Model Works’, a propaganda opera from the Chinese Cultural...

Liliya Syvytska's very personal film exploring the painful challenges of temporarily displaced Ukrainians in foreign lands.

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...

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

A Brazilian performance artist Vanesa Cardoso living in Newfoundland, Canada explores the figures of her Pochinko clown, discovering a desire to...

Sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

Upon enlarging a picture, a large amount of grain can be discerned. It's like another world or dimension, as if numerous people are moving in a...

A gift for all Nothern folks. A sand tale by Kseniya Simonova based on the Norvegian Epos.

Anxiety frightens, but can it be used to improve ourselves?

A rising musical theatre star struggles with his changing voice during his gender transition. With the help of a singing coach, he learns to trust...

The Martinez sisters performing a spanish dance

Behind every electrifying performance lies a story of sacrifice and passion. Before the Spotlight journeys behind the scenes of the dynamic Dauntless...

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

Two men lock into a bizarre power play to reassert the hierarchy of appearances.

A clown is confronted with the reality and difficulties of being a street artist in the digital age. In his search for online fame he makes a...

The Lady of the Sand presented her sand short film "Beautiful Morocco" in July 2013, created for the Foundation of Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla...

A ten-minute musical Movietone short featuring dancer Ruby Keeler.

Life Is Precious! is one of Simonova's earliest sand pieces. An anti-abortion work, it is built around the image of a fetus during an abortion and...

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