Sand Movies

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...

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,...

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

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...

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

In this animated short the artist tells the story of an Inuit hunter who clubs a seal pup on the ice and then later dies himself. The film's ethereal...

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

An old man, who has to carry a brick he soaked in the sea, struggles a bit while doing this.