Making Movie History: Co Hoedeman TrailerCo Hoedeman, Animator Trailer
Jacobus Willem (Co) Hoedeman (August 1, 1940 — May 26, 2025) is a Dutch-Canadian filmmaker known for his mastery of stop motion animation and technical innovation in films that reveal his close observation of human and social interaction.
Total trailers found: 29
18 August 2011
Based on a poem by Marie Jacobs, the animated short 55 Socks, by Oscar-winning director Co Hoedeman, pays tribute to the ingenuity of the Dutch people during a dark period of their history - the winter of hunger of 1944-45.
01 January 1987
A touching story of the friendship between a grandfather and his grandson, this is a film about aging and death.
01 January 1980
A film about the life and work of the acclaimed Dutch animator.
17 July 1992
This animated film uses the Arctic landscape and the traditional Inuit characters of the Bear, the Seal and the Owl to raise young people's awareness about the harmful effects of substance abuse.
01 January 1972
This short children's film by Co Hoedeman tells the story of 2 children and their encounter with an angry dragon, all represented by colourful building blocks.
01 January 1968
From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all.
01 January 2000
Ludovic: A Crocodile in My Garden is the second film in the collection Seasons in the Life of Ludovic.
05 November 1998
It's winter in a thatched cottage, home to a family of teddy bears. The young cub Ludovic dreams of tobogganing but his parents tell him he's too little.
01 January 2001
It's summer and Ludovic is invited to his grandfather's farm. The little teddy bear finds Grandpa very saddened by the death of Grandma, and Ludovic is fascinated by a room filled with mementos.
22 September 2002
It's autumn in all its glory and Ludovic is playing in the park. A bigger teddy bear knocks him down, and the little cub is rescued by a little girl teddy bear.
01 January 1980
An animated vignette. A lively dance of painted wooden dolls that twirl, swing and sway to gay music.
27 November 2003
An animated film based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō.
01 January 1968
A BAFTA award nominated animated documentary postulating that the Earth's land areas might actually be fluid (when it comes to movement).
01 January 2002
A miserly man eats the pits of some cherries he can't stand throwing out. A tree starts growing from the top of his head.
01 January 1980
Octopus-like puppets cut out of foam rubber are the central characters in this delightful underwater fantasy with its message about ecology and conservation.
01 January 1975
Lumaaq tells the story of a legend widely believed by the Povungnituk Inuit. The artist's drawings are transferred to paper, cut out, and animated under the camera.
01 June 1976
Monsieur Pointu would like to play his fiddle. But the fiddle has other ideas.
01 January 1989
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.
31 December 1977
This short animated film features the sandman and the creatures he sculpts out of sand. These lively creatures build a castle and celebrate the completion of their new home, only to be interrupted by an uninvited guest.
01 January 2004
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.
01 January 1975
This short film, in which a hunter is pursued, bound up and carried to a cave, tells the legend of a river, and of how fog came to the land.
05 March 1970
A dance of painted wooden Russian dolls (hollow inside and of graded sizes so that the largest holds all the rest).
01 January 1971
Using life-like seal fur puppets, this animated short by Co Hoedeman tells the traditional Inuit tale of the owl and the lemming.
01 January 1973
Using life-like seal fur puppets, this animated short by Co Hoedeman tells the traditional Inuit tale of the owl and the raven.
23 September 1984
The magical fingers of master animator Co Hoedeman, whose film The Sand Castle won an Oscar in 1979, has created yet another world of piquant creatures.
19 July 1997
In a beautiful garden called Ecos, there are a variety of creatures there who neatly fulfill vital roles in the healthy ecological system of the area.
01 January 2013
An undisputed master of puppet animation, Co Hoedeman would captivate TV audiences with The Sand Castle (1977), a film that went on to win an Oscar for Best Animated Short.
01 January 2002
Compilation film of four shorts about a year in the life of a young teddy bear.
