Performance Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

The Martinez sisters performing a spanish dance

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...

Where do I go from here is a performance arthouse-style film exploring the nostalgia of the concept of home in terms of home as a feeling rather than...

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

Sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.

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...

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.

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

Artist Fabiola Cepeda sacrifices her hair remaking herself into her Abuelo Pedro as a way of reclaiming the hostile space in Southern Carolina...

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

Sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.