Performance Movies
- 2023

Unfurl
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Unfurl is a minimalist short film composed of six contemplative shots featuring different colored plastic bags placed before a dual-camera setup,...
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- 2026

Really Happy Someday
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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...
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- 2009

Life is Precious!
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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...
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- 1970

Narciso Escondido
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- 2011

Lady Dior Moscow
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Based on an original concept by John Cameron Mitchell, this stunning sand animation merges haute couture with the magic of ephemeral art. Through the...
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- 2024

Above Above, Below Below
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A Brazilian performance artist Vanesa Cardoso living in Newfoundland, Canada explores the figures of her Pochinko clown, discovering a desire to...
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- 1928

Ruby Keeler
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A ten-minute musical Movietone short featuring dancer Ruby Keeler.
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- 2013

Beautiful Morocco
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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...
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- 2025

Free Anxiety
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Anxiety frightens, but can it be used to improve ourselves?
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- 1996

Secret
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Sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.
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- 2011

Chess Story
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Commissioned for the 2011 Monte-Carlo Amber Chess Championship, this spellbinding live sand animation turns the game of chess into an epic, fluid...
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- 2010

RMB City Opera
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RMB City Opera is an experimental theatrical play inspired by the ‘Eight Model Works’, a propaganda opera from the Chinese Cultural...
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- 1897

Spanish Dancers in Castille
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The Martinez sisters performing a spanish dance
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- 2013

Run for Lebanon
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Simonova recreated dramatic and multifaceted history of Lebanon at the request of representatives of the government of the country. Her sand film was...
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- 2011

Share Your Heart
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At Eurovision 2011, Ukrainian sand artist Kseniya Simonova joined singer Mika Newton on stage for the performance of the song "Angel." During the...
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- 2025

Before The Spotlight
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Behind every electrifying performance lies a story of sacrifice and passion. Before the Spotlight journeys behind the scenes of the dynamic Dauntless...
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- 1970

Camouflage
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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...
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- 2025

A clown serving his country
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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...
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- 2026

Where do I go from Here?
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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...
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- 1996

Trees
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Sand animation by Hungarian artist Ferenc Cakó.
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