
Person
Pierre Hébert
Directing · Born 1944-01-19 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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

Black Soul
Producer

The Private Life of Cinema
self

Barbaloune
Siméon

Under the Weather
Producer

La Pirouette
Producer

Population Explosion
Director

The Statue of Giordano Bruno
Animation
Triptych - 2
Director

Scratches of Life: the Art of Pierre Hébert
Self

The Reach of Resonance
Himself
Filmography
- 2024Scratches of Life: the Art of Pierre HébertSelf
- 2021Palimpseste sur « Prison » de Robert LapoujadeDirector
- 2021Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving TrainScreenplay
- 2021Palimpsest on “Prison” by Robert LapoujadeDirector
- 2018La statue de Robert E. Lee à CharlottesvilleDirector
- 2018But One Bird Sang NotDirector
- 2017Bazin's FilmDirector
- 2016Scratch (Triptych 3)Director
- 2015Cycling UtrechtDirector
- 2014You Look Like MeDirector
- 2013Triptych - 2Director
- 2011The Reach of ResonanceHimself
- 2011The Private Life of Cinemaself
- 2011Thunder RiverDirector
- 2005Variations on Two Photographs of Tina ModottiDirector of Photography
- 2005Trying to Describe OneselfHimself
- 2005The Statue of Giordano BrunoAnimation
- 2004Between Science and GarbageHimself
- 2002BarbalouneSiméon
- 2002La PirouetteProducer
- 2000Black SoulProducer
- 1997Under the WeatherProducer
- 1996La Plante HumaineDirector
- 1989La Lettre d'amourDirector
- 1987Adieu bipèdeDirector
- 1984Etienne et SaraDirector
- 1984Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The SubwayDirector
- 1983Memories of WarDirector
- 1978Entre chiens et loupDirector
- 1974Santa Claus is Coming TonightDirector
- 1974A Piece of CakeDirector
- 1973Du coq à l'âneDirector
- 1971Fundamental Principles in GeneticsDirector
- 1971CatuorProducer
- 1969The Crow and the FoxDirector
- 1968Around PerceptionDirector
- 1968Population ExplosionDirector
- 1967Opus 3Director
- 1966Op Hop/Hop OpAnimation
- 1966Knowing to LearnAnimation
- 1965Mail Early for ChristmasDirector
- 1964Opus 1Director
- 1963Histoire VerteDirector
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