Movies: Sand

Karen and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to her husband any more - the sand has managed to get everywhere. Harry, a tax collector, is a witness to this marriage falling apart....

The massive exploitation and extraction of sand throughout the world is leading to an alarming conclusion: all beaches will have disappeared by the end of the 21st century....

A man who used to be a political brigade commissar offended the society. Twenty years after the war, he comes to visit the old monument erected in honor of his dead comrades, unwanted and abandoned. They were roll-calling the dead and alive, but his ...

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 light-filled room in an abandoned house, the artist steps into frame to sweep it away, breaking the illusio...

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 images are created and transformed in sand....

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

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

An old man, who has to carry a brick he soaked in the sea, struggles a bit while doing this....