Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 19, 1944
Place of Birth
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Credits
44 titles
Pierre Hébert
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Prélude et fugues - la grive des bois
Director
Scratches of Life: the Art of Pierre Hébert
Self
Palimpseste sur « Prison » de Robert Lapoujade
Director
Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train
Screenplay
Palimpsest on “Prison” by Robert Lapoujade
Director
La statue de Robert E. Lee à Charlottesville
Director
But One Bird Sang Not
Director
Bazin's Film
Director
Scratch (Triptych 3)
Director
Cycling Utrecht
Director
You Look Like Me
Director
Triptych - 2
Director
The Reach of Resonance
Himself
The Private Life of Cinema
self
Thunder River
Director
Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti
Director of Photography
Trying to Describe Oneself
Himself
The Statue of Giordano Bruno
Animation
Between Science and Garbage
Himself
Barbaloune
Siméon
La Pirouette
Producer
Black Soul
Producer
Under the Weather
Producer
La Plante Humaine
Director
La Lettre d'amour
Director
Adieu bipède
Director
Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway
Director
Etienne et Sara
Director
Memories of War
Director
Entre chiens et loup
Director
Santa Claus is Coming Tonight
Director
A Piece of Cake
Director
Du coq à l'âne
Director
Fundamental Principles in Genetics
Director
Catuor
Producer
The Crow and the Fox
Director
Population Explosion
Director
Around Perception
Director
Opus 3
Director
Knowing to Learn
Animation
Op Hop/Hop Op
Animation
Mail Early for Christmas
Director
Opus 1
Director
Histoire Verte
Director