Performance Movies

Based on an original concept by John Cameron Mitchell, this stunning sand animation merges haute couture with the magic of ephemeral art. Through the...

A ten-minute musical Movietone short featuring dancer Ruby Keeler.

Liliya Syvytska's very personal film exploring the painful challenges of temporarily displaced Ukrainians in foreign lands.

At Eurovision 2011, Ukrainian sand artist Kseniya Simonova joined singer Mika Newton on stage for the performance of the song "Angel." During the fest...

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

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

Created in collaboration with the New York beatboxers Kid Lucky and Shockwave, and the spoken word artist Vocab, “Beatbox” portrays sound and movement...

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

RMB City Opera is an experimental theatrical play inspired by the ‘Eight Model Works’, a propaganda opera from the Chinese Cultural Revolution. On the...

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

In this landmark performance, Barbara T. Smith collaborated with computer scientist Richard Rubenstein to generate 3,000 unique computer-produced snow...

Surrounded by reflections of color, an ephemeral being explores the ethereal, sweet, and dangerous nature of sexual affection for another. It yearns t...

Developed in collaboration with scientific laboratories in Japan, Germany, Russia and Belgium, Camera Lucida (chamber of light or lucidity) is a 3-dim...

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 s...

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

Inside Revolution proposes a journey at the heart of a process of creation. Montreal artist, filmmaker and painter, Yoakim Bélanger, reveals the wings...

Anxiety frightens, but can it be used to improve ourselves?

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

The Spectacular Dancer in five NEW bewildering and sensational dances (#233-237). [This is likely the first of the five from the 1897 Catalogue: Ediso...