The Dancing Bulrushes (1985)

The Dancing Bulrushes is based on an Ojibwa Native American story about coyote, the trickster, published by Barry Lopez. The film was made by animating beach sand frame by frame, on top of a sheet of glass, directly under the camera. "Sand, lit from behind, is manipulated to recreate the Chippewa tale of a wiley coyote, and the screen's surface becomes a shifting sea of grains." -Maxine Beach, Webster University Journal