Performance Movies

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

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

Miloš Šejn: lying down, awake. And above all, creating. This documentary essay follows an artist whose work is “born of...

A Brazilian performance artist Vanesa Cardoso living in Newfoundland, Canada explores the figures of her Pochinko clown, discovering a desire to...

Two men lock into a bizarre power play to reassert the hierarchy of appearances.

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

Commissioned for the 2011 Monte-Carlo Amber Chess Championship, this spellbinding live sand animation turns the game of chess into an epic, fluid...

A gift for all Nothern folks. A sand tale by Kseniya Simonova based on the Norvegian Epos.

Behind every electrifying performance lies a story of sacrifice and passion. Before the Spotlight journeys behind the scenes of the dynamic Dauntless...

A rising musical theatre star struggles with his changing voice during his gender transition. With the help of a singing coach, he learns to trust...

Through vocal play and performance, this work by Alain Pelletier explores the concept of Asexual reproduction.

Life Is Precious! is one of Simonova's earliest sand pieces. An anti-abortion work, it is built around the image of a fetus during an abortion and...

A clown is confronted with the reality and difficulties of being a street artist in the digital age. In his search for online fame he makes a...

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

After the enormous success of You Are Always Nearby, Simonova presented her next piece, titled Don't Be Too Late!, at the final of Ukraine's Got...

Where do I go from here is a performance arthouse-style film exploring the nostalgia of the concept of home in terms of home as a feeling rather than...

This film is dedicated to the Russian legends that found their reflection in the Russian tradition of the artist and author Kseniya Simonova. The...

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...

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