Sand Movies

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

It is cold and dark. In between surreal waves and the morning haze, we catch a glimpse of the emerging glows. The sea breeze wiggles and writhes,...

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

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...

What appears at first glance to be a patterned floor of traditional Islamic tiles is in fact an intricate installation of hand dyed sand. In a...

A crew on a remote construction site are plagued by a series of bizarre mishaps. As the incidents turn more and more savage, it becomes clear that...

A short 1979 sand animation celebrating women's spirituality with 80-year-old lesbian poet Elsa Gidlow reading her work "What If."

The massive exploitation and extraction of sand throughout the world is leading to an alarming conclusion: all beaches will have disappeared by the...