Performance Movies
- 2025

Hair Sacrifice For Abuelo Pedro (South Of The Border) Performance
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Artist Fabiola Cepeda sacrifices her hair remaking herself into her Abuelo Pedro as a way of reclaiming the hostile space in Southern Carolina...
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- 1970

Meditations, Volume 2: Things Remember
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In Things Remember, the protagonist, performed by dance-artist Allison Blakley, speaks of the limitations of chronic illness and how this can serve...
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- 2010

RMB City Opera
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RMB City Opera is an experimental theatrical play inspired by the ‘Eight Model Works’, a propaganda opera from the Chinese Cultural...
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- 2023

Unfurl
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Unfurl is a minimalist short film composed of six contemplative shots featuring different colored plastic bags placed before a dual-camera setup,...
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- 2012

To Return Her Childhood
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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...
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- 2009

You Are Always Nearby
You Are Always Nearby02009HD
You Are Always Nearby is the defining work and the cornerstone of Simonova's entire career. The story follows a young couple during World War II: the...
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- 2025

Storia dell'uomo
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Two men lock into a bizarre power play to reassert the hierarchy of appearances.
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- 2009

Circus
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Simonova began experimenting with sand animation in late 2008, initially as something quite experimental and almost accidental. Circus is her first...
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- 1970

Itinerario Pictórico
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Canvas becomes a dynamic actor over the course of a 50 minute journey. The paths, far from being a simple cycling route, become brushes that paint...
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- 2026

My Head Pushes Me Against the Walls
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In her room, a woman draws faces on the floor. They multiply, slowly covering the walls as sadness takes over the space.
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- 2011

Share Your Heart
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At Eurovision 2011, Ukrainian sand artist Kseniya Simonova joined singer Mika Newton on stage for the performance of the song "Angel." During the...
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- 2012

Shakuntala DuBois
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The Broke People's Baroque Peoples' Theater engages questions of economic inequity, artistic patronage, and a culture of excess (or excess of...
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- 2023

Pianowork 2
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Pianowork 2 is an animated recording of me playing Jürg Frey’s ‘Klavierstück 2’ at Mimic Productions in Berlin on 22 June...
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- 2010

My Heart
My Heart02010HD
A sand animation piece dedicated to children born with congenital heart disease in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Created in connection with a pediatric...
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- 2011

September 11th
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This sand film is devoted to the memory of the tragedy of 11th September which was a great shock for the famous sand artist from Ukraine Kseniya...
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- 2025

Também se chamavam Sonhos
Também se chamavam Sonhos02025HD
A documentary from Recife that follows the story of five friends, transforming memories into an audiovisual time capsule. Created as a graduation...
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- 1897

Spanish Dancers in Castille
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The Martinez sisters performing a spanish dance
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- 2011

Love is Stronger
Love is Stronger02011HD
This sand animation film is devoted to the holy memory of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his Family. On 17 (4, Old Style) July the Russian...
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- 2011

Eternal Tears
Eternal Tears02011HD
A haunting sand animation tribute to the victims of the Chernobyl disaster. Through shifting images of innocence, suffering, and loss, Kseniya...
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- 2013

Run for Lebanon
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Simonova recreated dramatic and multifaceted history of Lebanon at the request of representatives of the government of the country. Her sand film was...
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