Of all the Internet videos to go viral this year, it is hands-down the most unusual: an eight-minute performance from the TV show Ukraine's Got Talent during which a 24-year-old "sand animator" named Kseniya Simonova draws a constantly evolving series of illustrations, in sand, showing how ordinary people suffered in the wake of the German invasion in World War II.
The unlikely YouTube sensation has been viewed more than 2 million times.
The performance reduced many in the audience –as well as at least one of the three judges – to tears. A section of the shifting pictures is set to a classical version of "Nothing Else Matters," performed by Finnish cello act Apocalyptica but originally done by heavy metal band Metallica.
Simonova was named winner of Ukraine's Got Talent, taking home prize money equivalent to about $135,000 CDN.
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