Amanda Palmer posted this on her blog a few weeks ago and I felt the need to spread it around as well. Wait until the whole video loads and watch it in one run, without background noise. It's moving and beautiful and wonderful and breathtaking and heartbreaking and all kinds of things.
The Guardian explains it much better in their article:
"Ukraine's Got Talent? This much we already knew...We can now add Kseniya Simonova to that list who has won the Ukrainian version of Britain's Got Talent with sand animation. Yes, you heard right. She tells stories through sand...
Here, she recounts Germany conquering Ukraine in the second world war. She brings calm, then conflict. A couple on a bench become a woman's face; a peaceful walkway becomes a conflagration; a weeping widow morphs into an obelisk for an unknown soldier. Simonova looks like some vengeful Old Testament deity as she destroys then recreates her scenes - with deft strokes, sprinkles and sweeps she keeps the narrative going. She moves the judges to tears as she subtitles the final scene "you are always near"."
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