Avi Ofer’s movie Sandbox (2006) is an ironic commentary on a reality where children are killed while playing in the playground because of stray missiles, bombs, gunfire either randomly fired or fired at them. The children, drawn in delicate, almost imperceptible lines, are one by one transformed into angels. These variations of the same repetitious cycle, depicted with a kind of stoic calmness, along with the music that echoes the steady rhythm of the drawings, creates a sequence of tangible reality and becomes a fragile metaphor of violence and death. This incongruity between the quiet nature of the animation and the harsh, ruthless reality it depicts succeeds in unsettling the senses and penetrating into the viewer’s consciousness.
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