Performance Movies

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

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

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...

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 group of young men waltz in pairs, balancing with a glass between their foreheads. In this captivating setting, director Albert Rask crafts a new...

This sand film is devoted to the memory of the tragedy of 11th September which was a great shock for the famous sand artist from Ukraine Kseniya...

Pianowork 2 is an animated recording of me playing Jürg Frey’s ‘Klavierstück 2’ at Mimic Productions in Berlin on 22 June...

Simonova began experimenting with sand animation in late 2008, initially as something quite experimental and almost accidental. Circus is her first...

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...

On 13th December, which is known as the Google Day, Kseniya Simonova presented a brand new work of hers which was shown live during the on-line...

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

On December 25, 2009, Simonova performed this sand story in Valletta, Malta, during the televised charity marathon L'Istrina, at the invitation of...

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...

Jon Satrom's prepared desktop realtime performance: Windows, Rainbows, & Dinos was a part of the CAA 2010 Live Cinema Summit at Columbia College in...

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

In Things Remember, the protagonist, performed by dance-artist Allison Blakley, speaks of the limitations of chronic illness and how this can serve...

This film is dedicated to the Russian legends that found their reflection in the Russian tradition of the artist and author Kseniya Simonova. The...

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

You Are Always Nearby is the defining work and the cornerstone of Simonova's entire career. The story follows a young couple during World War II: the...

The Spectacular Dancer in five NEW bewildering and sensational dances (#233-237). [This is likely the first of the five from the 1897 Catalogue:...