Movies: Sand

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

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

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

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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 images are created and transformed in sand....