Surrealistic Sand Animation

Posted by John Farrier in Arts & Crafts, Video Clips on October 21, 2009 at 1:34 pm


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Un Trou a la Place du Coeur (A Hole in the Place of the Heart) is a short sand animation film by David Myriam. He writes that it describes “When the violence of individuals generates the birth of an unverifiable collective monster.” Run time: 3 minutes.

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The Sand Animation of Kseniya Simonova

Posted by John Farrier in Arts & Crafts, Video Clips on August 19, 2009 at 8:25 pm


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Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who creates sand drawings in front of audiences. Here she is performing on Ukraine’s Got Talent:

Here, she recounts Germany conquering Ukraine in the second world war. She brings calm, then conflict. A couple on a bench become a woman’s face; a peaceful walkway becomes a conflagration; a weeping widow morphs into an obelisk for an unknown soldier. Simonova looks like some vengeful Old Testament deity as she destroys then recreates her scenes – with deft strokes, sprinkles and sweeps she keeps the narrative going. She moves the judges to tears as she subtitles the final scene “you are always near”.

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