The Sand
Fifth part of the cycle “Thou Art BENEDICTUS”. Reflections on the sand - taken literally and metaphorically.
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Fifth part of the cycle “Thou Art BENEDICTUS”. Reflections on the sand - taken literally and metaphorically.
Liu Zeyuan is a farmer on the edge of the desert at the junction of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia. He grows food and raises camels, and his family's annual income is 5,000 yuan. Liu Picheng is a fisherman on Jingwa Island,
Set in the present-day Iraq war, this tense and gripping drama unfolds as two US Marines find themselves stranded and alone in the desert after their unit is all but destroyed in a routine mission. One of their team is t
As children, Juan and Plumitas dream of becoming bullfighters. But one day when they go to the ring, they are offered a chance to fight the bulls and become candidates. Juan freezes, and it is their friend Chiripa who ju
As Steve prepares the perfect proposal, his girlfriend, Ally finds out the bank is going to take her grandma’s house if she doesn’t come up with a very large sum of money by noon on Monday. On the way home she stops for
The Golden Blade should be kept in the hands of a good person; if it fell into the wrong hands the outcome would be terrible. Evil Black Bat asked for the sword, but the sword smith refused the demand. The prentice hid t
Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.
At the airport, Slavi tells his life's story to a young customs officer. As children, Nelly promises Slavi to marry him. The two teenagers are passionately in love with each other but after some time Nelly falls in love
A father murders his son's girlfriend.
One of Rufus B. Seder's early films, shot on 16mm Bolex in 1967, at the age of 12
"Commissioned by Dokumenta XI in 2002, Jonas' multimedia performance piece Lines in the Sand takes up two works by the poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)—Helen in Egypt (1955) and Tribute to Freud (1944)—as source material. Nar
Divorced salaryman Yoji has just buried his mother in Tokyo. With few meaningful relationships left, he comes to grips with the realization that he has nothing to live for. A chance encounter with Minerva, a Filipina mi
A sculpture by artist Katie Paterson and architectural studio Zeller & Moye, Mirage consists of 448 cast glass cylinders that were made of sands collected from 70 deserts around the Earth. This video chronicles the fabri
Paddy finds there are two separate laws, the white and the black.
This documentary brings us closer to the harsh reality of a group of 300 women who live in Tarrafal, Santiago Island (Cape Verde). They have found a way of family subsistence by extracting sand daily, completely manually
Directed by Omar Amiralay.
Footprints in the Sand tells of the extraordinary search for Warri and Yatungka, believed to be the last of the Gibson Desert people who 'came in’ out of the desert for the first time in the late 1970s. This is both a sa
United States / Cuba 1981, Super 8 transferred to digital, black and white, silent, 2 min
A richly lyrical documentary celebration of the vibrant beach life in the North East of England, constructed entirely out of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's black & white photographs.
Two boys are on an unplanned vacation by foot. They meet a girl who has nothing but a bikini under her coat. She says her cloths were stolen while she was bathing. She joins their company. They steel cloths for her. Ther