Technique

Sand Animation

1–16 of 16 films

  • Chloé Van Herzeele

    2019 Adults 17 min

    by Anne-Sophie Girault, Clémence Bouchereau

    Chloé, an old lady, organizes screenings in a subterranean space. She shows to a journalist her galleries where her collection of silver films is stored. As we go down, we dive with her into her altered universe.

    • Drama
  • White Horse

    2019 16+ 7 min

    by Yujie Xu

    They say an accordion could never talk to a white horse.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Vibration

    2019 Adults 2 min

    by Sofiya Ilieva

    Nothing is constant but change. All existence is a perpetual flux of being and becoming (Ernst Haeckel).

    • Drama
    • Documentary
    • Experimental
  • Traces of Ephemeral

    2016 16+ 8 min

    by Agnieszka Waszczeniuk

    The film is the story of man and his relationship with nature – the nature of which we ar part of; which has the ability to renew itself, dye and to re-return to life.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • by Cecilia Traslaviña

    A journey through the profound silence of a mother.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Phobia

    2016 16+ 6 min

    by Agnieszka Konarska

    The phobia typically results in a rapid onset of fear and is present for more than six months. If the feared object or situation cannot be avoided, the affected person will have significant distress.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Only a child

    2020 13+ 7 min

    by Simone Giampaolo

    Only a Child is a visual poem created by over 20 animation directors under the artistic supervision of Simone Giampaolo, which gives shape and colour to the original words spoken by Severn Cullis-Suzuki at the UN Summit in Rio in 1992, a child’s desperate call to action for the future of our planet.

    • Drama
    • Documentary
    • Experimental
  • by Naomi van Niekerk

    Follow a crow’s flight into the city of Johannesburg. A music video done with sand animation and silhouettes inspired by the Afrikaans poem ‘By alle skone dinge’ (To all things beautiful).

    • Experimental
    • Drama
    • Non-narrative
  • My Mum’s Bonkers

    2015 Adults 3 min

    by Naomi van Niekerk, Naomi Van Niekerk

    An adaptation of the poem ‘My mamma is bossies’ written by Jeanne Goosen. A melancholic poetry film in black and white with sand and silhouettes. About the loss of a mother and a flawed relationship between daughter and child. Inspired by Jeanne Goosen’s eponymous poem, recited by the well-known South-African actress Elize Cawood, to the aria O mia babbino caro from Puccini’s opera Gianni Schicci, in a legendary performance by Maria Callas (1955).

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Moodswing

    2003 Adults 12 min

    by Pieter Coudyzer

    This is a classic spine-tingling short thriller. A man and a small child are driving through a forest on a dark and rainy night. Their car breaks down and they decide to shelter in what seems to be an abandoned house. However, that’s where their problems really begin.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Mitya’s Love

    2018 Adults 14 min

    by Svetlana Filippova

    A film based on the short story by Boris Shergin Mitya’s Love. The story of how Mitya was looking for his love. The film uses images of Russian avant-garde artists Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova and masters of naive art Pavel Leonov and Lyubov Maykova.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • mekakure

    2019 16+ 6 min

    by Akifumi Nonaka

    Shun regretted this. He still can’t understand why he was playing with these four who are not really friends, nor actually people he likes. The unbearable heat and the heavy atmosphere at the shrine deepen Shun’s depression.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Last Autumn

    2012 16+ 4 min

    by Sofiya Ilieva

    The time has come a woman to part with her man. Death descends from the mountain to collect a man. Inspired by haiku.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Kigo

    2013 7+ 7 min

    by Izumi Yoshida

    An abstract visualization of Japanese poems called Haiku. Haiku employed in Kigo presents the value of common, everyday things whose beauty is the source of one’s fascination.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Guaxuma

    2019 16+ 14 min

    by Nara Normande

    Nara and Tayra grew up in Guaxuma, a beach in the north east of Brazil, but as a teenager Nara had to leave this place of freedom. After an unexpected shattering event, Nara returns to Guaxuma but she doesn’t recognize the virgin paradise of her childhood anymore. Is it the beach that has changed or Nara herself?

    • Drama
    • Documentary
    • Experimental
  • Footprints

    2006 16+ 6 min

    by Franziska Bachmaier

    A girl tries to get away from the shadows of the past. During her odyssey, she becomes more and more a shadow of her former self. She finally reaches the point, when there is no escape and finds something, that had been lost a long time ago…

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative