Sand Movies

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, twis...

A lyrical and funny story about the hard life of a village on the coast suffering from the high winds.

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

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

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

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

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...