Co Hoedeman is a living legend and one of the masters of cinema. Discover his whimsical children's films with the whole family.
Make room please! Legend incoming! Dutch-Canadian master of puppet and stop-motion animation Co Hoedeman has captivated audiences worldwide with his films and is an undisputed icon of the genre. Born during the German occupation of the Netherlands, surviving the Hunger Winter during WWII, leaving school at 15, taking courses when he could at the School of Fine Arts and learning the craft of (animation) film, experimenting with new techniques and materials, immigrating to Canada at age 25 with a film reel under his arm and a dream to work for the National Film Board of Canada's renowned animation unit, mastering stop-motion, studying puppet animation in Czechoslovakia, winning an Oscar(!), ... Co Hoedeman has seen and conquered it all.
His whimsical children's films are perhaps one of the wonders of the world. Therefore, we have carefully selected four of them for you to embrace! Witness some of the very best animated films in the Milky Way. Thank you, Co <3
In Co Hoedeman's animated short about a troupe of marionette acrobats, everything that can go wrong does. No matter what the ringleader does, each act goes awry until we begin to wonder who's really running the show. Even when Marianne, the master puppeteer, emerges at the end of the show to take her final bow, those little acrobats still seem to have a mind of their own. Brilliantly executed, this film dissolves the boundaries between theatre and animated film to create a magical experience.
Letterboxd: The curtains of a theatre open onto a smaller puppet theatre presided over by Marianne. The ringmaster waves her baton at three shadowy acrobats that climb one by one out of her hat. Each performs his number, although not without some difficulty. The clumsiness of the first, the mischievousness of the second, and the fieriness of the third trigger a few clashes that ultimately lead to chaos. How can Marianne create harmony without losing control? Will her show flop? Who’s really calling the shots, the little puppet or her acrobats? ×
- His last film as an employee of the National Film Board was Mariannne's Theatre (2004)
Tchou-tchou
Co Hoedeman
Canada, 1972
13 min.
Based on a wooden building set, this animated short explores an imaginary world belonging to children. A girl and a boy play in a city of cubes, cylinders and cones that they have built themselves. A dragon appears and upsets their blocks and disturbs everything. What to do and how to get rid of the intruder? Using various tricks, they succeed in making their enemy their best partner. Film without words.
A fantasy where children's building blocks and music effects do everything. Blocks represent the make-believe city and the two children who play in it. Blocks even act out the story when an angry dragon appears on the scene, while music scores the action. This is puppet theater reduced to its simplest form.
The Box
Co Hoedeman
Canada, 1989
10 min.
Oscar-winning animator Co Hoedeman and his newest creature come together in this enchanting and colourful fable about the joys and pains of growing up. No sooner has the paint dried, than the puppet begins to take its first few steps and, urged on by the artist, begins to discover a wider world. He experiences the joys of playtime and sharing and eventually begins to spread his social wings. The film charts the shaping of a personality, and the evolution of a sense of self-awareness until the creature is ready to leave its protective environment. Live-action, puppets and pixilation create this amazing world of fantasy. Film without words.
The Sand Castle
Co Hoedeman
The Netherlands / Canada, 1977
13 min.
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.
The film was created with sand animation and sand-covered foam rubber puppets.
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