Pierre Hébert

Known for DirectingBorn 1944-01-19 (age 82)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Triptych - 2

La Pirouette

Population Explosion

Knowing to Learn

Barbaloune

Catuor

La Plante Humaine

Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway

Under the Weather

Du coq à l'âne

Opus 3

Trying to Describe Oneself

The Crow and the Fox

Bazin's Film

La Lettre d'amour

Opus 1

Black Soul

Around Perception

Op Hop/Hop Op

Memories of War

Adieu bipède

Between Science and Garbage

Scratches of Life: the Art of Pierre Hébert

Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train

Palimpseste sur « Prison » de Robert Lapoujade

Palimpsest on “Prison” by Robert Lapoujade

La statue de Robert E. Lee à Charlottesville

But One Bird Sang Not

Scratch (Triptych 3)

Cycling Utrecht

You Look Like Me

The Reach of Resonance

The Private Life of Cinema

Rivière au tonnerre

The Statue of Giordano Bruno

Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti

Etienne et Sara

Entre chiens et loup

Santa Claus is Coming Tonight

A Piece of Cake

Fundamental Principles in Genetics

Mail Early for Christmas

Histoire Verte