MEDIA
Documentary Reflects on Two Artists and Friends Entering Their Ninth Decades
The Global Ageing Network
Grains of Sand is a moving, reflective documentary that follows the close friendship—and yearly meeting—of two women, separated by an ocean but united by a lifelong bond and their art, as they approach their 80th birthdays.
Margot and Barbara are filmmaker Sarah Gross’s mother and mother-in-law, respectively. Margot, a native of England who now lives in San Francisco, CA, and Barbara, who lives in Hamburg, Germany, meet yearly on a farm in Germany. The farmhouse becomes a yearly ritual where the women, both still active in their work in stone, painting, and collage, meet to share their art, reflect on their lives, and enjoy their friendship.