Pierre Hébert
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.
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Películas (45)

Prelude and Fugues – The Wood Thrush
2026 · Director, Animation, Editor

Scratches of Life: the Art of Pierre Hébert
2024 · Self

Palimpseste sur « Prison » de Robert Lapoujade
2021 · Director

Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train
2021 · Director, Editor, Screenplay
Palimpsest on “Prison” by Robert Lapoujade
2021 · Director

La statue de Robert E. Lee à Charlottesville
2018 · Director

But One Bird Sang Not
2018 · Director, Producer

Bazin's Film
2017 · Director, Writer

Scratch (Triptych 3)
2016 · Director
Cycling Utrecht
2015 · Director

You Look Like Me
2014 · Director
Triptych - 2
2013 · Director, Animation, Producer

The Reach of Resonance
2011 · Himself

The Private Life of Cinema
2011 · self

Thunder River
2011 · Director

Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti
2005 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer

Trying to Describe Oneself
2005 · Himself

The Statue of Giordano Bruno
2005 · Director, Animation

Between Science and Garbage
2004 · Himself, Animation, Director

Barbaloune
2002 · Siméon

La Pirouette
2002 · Producer

Black Soul
2000 · Producer

The threshold
1998 · Producer

Under the Weather
1997 · Producer

La Plante Humaine
1996 · Director, Writer

La Lettre d'amour
1989 · Director

Adieu bipède
1987 · Director

Etienne et Sara
1984 · Director

Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway
1984 · Director

Memories of War
1983 · Director

Entre chiens et loup
1978 · Director
Santa Claus is Coming Tonight
1974 · Director
A Piece of Cake
1974 · Director

Du coq à l'âne
1973 · Director, Animation, Screenplay

Fundamental Principles in Genetics
1971 · Director

Catuor
1971 · Producer

The Crow and the Fox
1969 · Director
Around Perception
1968 · Director, Music

Population Explosion
1968 · Director
Opus 3
1967 · Animation, Director

Op Hop/Hop Op
1966 · Animation, Director

Knowing to Learn
1966 · Animation
Mail Early for Christmas
1965 · Director

Opus 1
1964 · Director

Histoire Verte
1963 · Director
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