Pierre Hébert
Directing
1944-01-19 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Formerly an employee of the National film board of Canada where between 1965 and 1999 he directed over twenty animation shorts and a feature (La Plante humaine, best Quebec feature award 1996), Pierre Hébert is now an independent artist and filmmaker. Since 2001, he traveled the world with his musician colleague Bob Ostertag presenting the Living Cinema live animation performance over 80 times. He also worked with many other musicians. He equally collaborated with dance companies in New York, Montreal and France and published two books and many articles on cinema and animation. He also pursue a carreer as a visual artist (drawings, installations, web projects). Currently, his main project is a new series of films Places and Monuments for which he received, in 2012, from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec the prestigious "career grant" for cinema. In 2005, he was the recipient of the “Albert Tessier” cinema award from the Quebec government for lifetime achievement, in 2017, he received a special carreer award from the Tehran International Animation Festival, and in 2018, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Filmography
Scratches of Life: the Art of Pierre Hébert
2024 · Movie
Palimpseste sur « Prison » de Robert Lapoujade
2021 · Movie
Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train
2021 · Movie
Palimpsest on “Prison” by Robert Lapoujade
2021 · Movie
La statue de Robert E. Lee à Charlottesville
2018 · Movie
But One Bird Sang Not
2018 · Movie
Bazin's Film
2017 · Movie
Scratch (Triptych 3)
2016 · Movie
Cycling Utrecht
2015 · Movie
You Look Like Me
2014 · Movie
Triptych - 2
2013 · Movie
The Reach of Resonance
2011 · Movie
The Private Life of Cinema
2011 · Movie
Thunder River
2011 · Movie
Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti
2005 · Movie
Trying to Describe Oneself
2005 · Movie
The Statue of Giordano Bruno
2005 · Movie
Between Science and Garbage
2004 · Movie
Barbaloune
2002 · Movie
La Pirouette
2002 · Movie
Black Soul
2000 · Movie
Under the Weather
1997 · Movie
La Plante Humaine
1996 · Movie
La Lettre d'amour
1989 · Movie
Adieu bipède
1987 · Movie
Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway
1984 · Movie
Etienne et Sara
1984 · Movie
Memories of War
1983 · Movie
Entre chiens et loup
1978 · Movie
Santa Claus is Coming Tonight
1974 · Movie
A Piece of Cake
1974 · Movie
Du coq à l'âne
1973 · Movie
Fundamental Principles in Genetics
1971 · Movie
Catuor
1971 · Movie
The Crow and the Fox
1969 · Movie
Population Explosion
1968 · Movie
Around Perception
1968 · Movie
Opus 3
1967 · Movie
Knowing to Learn
1966 · Movie
Op Hop/Hop Op
1966 · Movie
Mail Early for Christmas
1965 · Movie
Opus 1
1964 · Movie
Histoire Verte
1963 · Movie
Prélude et fugues - la grive des bois
Movie