Performance Movies

  • 2025
    Hair Sacrifice For Abuelo Pedro (South Of The Border) Performance

    Hair Sacrifice For Abuelo Pedro (South Of The Border) Performance

    Hair Sacrifice For Abuelo Pedro (South Of The Border) Performance

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

    Hair Sacrifice For Abuelo Pedro (South Of The Border) Performance
  • 1970
    Meditations, Volume 2: Things Remember

    Meditations, Volume 2: Things Remember

    Meditations, Volume 2: Things Remember

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

    Meditations, Volume 2: Things Remember
  • 2010
    RMB City Opera

    RMB City Opera

    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...

    RMB City Opera
  • 2023
    Unfurl

    Unfurl

    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,...

    Unfurl
  • 2012
    To Return Her Childhood

    To Return Her Childhood

    To Return Her Childhood

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    The Lady of the Sand is presenting her second sand film devoted to help a Russian child suffering with cancer. A month earlier Kseniya has created a...

    To Return Her Childhood
  • 2009
    You Are Always Nearby

    You Are Always Nearby

    You Are Always Nearby

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    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...

    You Are Always Nearby
  • 2025
    Storia dell'uomo

    Storia dell'uomo

    Storia dell'uomo

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

    Storia dell'uomo
  • 2009
    Circus

    Circus

    Circus

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

    Circus
  • 1970
    Itinerario Pictórico

    Itinerario Pictórico

    Itinerario Pictórico

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    Canvas becomes a dynamic actor over the course of a 50 minute journey. The paths, far from being a simple cycling route, become brushes that paint...

    Itinerario Pictórico
  • 2026
    My Head Pushes Me Against the Walls

    My Head Pushes Me Against the Walls

    My Head Pushes Me Against the Walls

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    In her room, a woman draws faces on the floor. They multiply, slowly covering the walls as sadness takes over the space.

    My Head Pushes Me Against the Walls
  • 2011
    Share Your Heart

    Share Your Heart

    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...

    Share Your Heart
  • 2012
    Shakuntala DuBois

    Shakuntala DuBois

    Shakuntala DuBois

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    The Broke People's Baroque Peoples' Theater engages questions of economic inequity, artistic patronage, and a culture of excess (or excess of...

    Shakuntala DuBois
  • 2023
    Pianowork 2

    Pianowork 2

    Pianowork 2

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

    Pianowork 2
  • 2010
    My Heart

    My Heart

    My Heart

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    A sand animation piece dedicated to children born with congenital heart disease in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Created in connection with a pediatric...

    My Heart
  • 2011
    September 11th

    September 11th

    September 11th

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    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...

    September 11th
  • 2025
    Também se chamavam Sonhos

    Também se chamavam Sonhos

    Também se chamavam Sonhos

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    A documentary from Recife that follows the story of five friends, transforming memories into an audiovisual time capsule. Created as a graduation...

    Também se chamavam Sonhos
  • 1897
    Spanish Dancers in Castille

    Spanish Dancers in Castille

    Spanish Dancers in Castille

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    The Martinez sisters performing a spanish dance

    Spanish Dancers in Castille
  • 2011
    Love is Stronger

    Love is Stronger

    Love is Stronger

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    This sand animation film is devoted to the holy memory of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his Family. On 17 (4, Old Style) July the Russian...

    Love is Stronger
  • 2011
    Eternal Tears

    Eternal Tears

    Eternal Tears

    02011HD

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

    Eternal Tears
  • 2013
    Run for Lebanon

    Run for Lebanon

    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...

    Run for Lebanon