And by “largest”, I mean that the crafting surface was 11,000 square feet of beach. Sand artists carefully shaped each change around an actual human figure. The cameras were just Nokia N8 cellphones held aloft by a crane over the beach. At Dude Craft, you can watch other videos showing how the directors made this amazing video. They’re the same people responsible for Dot, the world’s smallest stop-motion animated film. -via Dude Craft

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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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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