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The Sand Castle (film)

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Directed by
  
Co Hoedeman

Cinematography
  
Jean-Yves Escoffier

Initial release
  
1 June 1977

Budget
  
82,783 USD

Music by
  
Normand Roger

Edited by
  
Jacques Drouin

Director
  
Co Hoedeman

Music director
  
Normand Roger

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Produced by
  
Pierre Moretti Gaston Sarault

Distributed by
  
National Film Board of Canada

Awards
  
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated)

Producers
  
Gaston Sarault, Pierre Moretti

Similar
  
Every Child, Special Delivery, Frank Film, The Crunch Bird, Is It Always Right to Be Right?

The sand castle


The Sand Castle (French: Le château de sable) is a 1977 stop motion animated short by Co Hoedeman. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 50th Academy Awards, the film was produced by Gaston Sarault for the National Film Board of Canada. The film was created with sand animation and sand-covered foam rubber puppets. Including its Oscar, the film received over 20 awards in Canada and internationally.

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The sand castle


Plot

The plot of the film follows a humanoid sand person who creates living creatures from sand in a desert of some unknown location. He then initiates a plan: that they create a sand castle for them to reside in. With each other's help, the sand castle is eventually completed and the sand characters celebrate. The celebration is cut shortly when wind begins to blow and covers up the sand castle, with the sand characters retreating inside for safety. The viewer may possibly assume that, once the wind dies down, the characters would eventually resurface and start over again and that this cycle could continue endlessly.

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The Sand Castle (film) Wikipedia