Performance Movies

Developed in collaboration with scientific laboratories in Japan, Germany, Russia and Belgium, Camera Lucida (chamber of light or lucidity) is a...

Stage hand Harold falls in love with the leading lady of a visiting theatrical troupe.

Created in collaboration with the New York beatboxers Kid Lucky and Shockwave, and the spoken word artist Vocab, “Beatbox” portrays sound...

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

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

A comedian confronts his own thoughts of suicide on stage, turning his personal crisis into an uncomfortable comedy.

There are thousands of comedians in New York City, performing every night, working hard for laughs from the world's toughest audience. What happens...

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

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

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

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

The Martinez sisters performing a spanish dance

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

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

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...