Sand Movies

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

Fifth part of the cycle “Thou Art BENEDICTUS”. Reflections on the sand - taken literally and metaphorically.

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...

After the enormous success of You Are Always Nearby, Simonova presented her next piece, titled Don't Be Too Late!, at the final of Ukraine's Got...

Osiris' Gift is a short stop motion animated film that follows an explorer in a desert searching for mythical 'immortality mushrooms'.

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

Kseniya Simonova devoted a sand story titled "Life Always Wins" to the March 2011 tragedy in Japan.

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

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

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

A poignant sand animation inspired by the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Through shifting images drawn in sand, the film depicts the disaster,...

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