The Sand Castle (Le château de sable) is a 1977 stop motion animated short created by Co Hoedeman for the National Film Board of Canada.
The rest is left open to interpretation; viewers may assume that the characters are subsumed, or that they eventually resurface and start over again in an endless cycle.
[6] The theme of The Sand Castle, according to Hoedeman, is "man versus nature...one can't outdo the other.
"[7] In 2015, the Canadian filmmaker Dylan Akio Smith wrote: "Thematically, there is a sense of fun and magic as we watch these little sand figures come out of the ground and interact with each other.
The somewhat Canadian themes of diversity and working together in harmony for the greater good is also present.