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Pierre Hébert
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 featur…
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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
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2024
Scratches of Life: the Art of Pierre Hébert
Movie Self
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2021
Palimpseste sur « Prison » de Robert Lapoujade
Movie Director
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2021
Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train
Movie Screenplay
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2021
Palimpsest on “Prison” by Robert Lapoujade
Movie Director
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2018
La statue de Robert E. Lee à Charlottesville
Movie Director
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2018
But One Bird Sang Not
Movie Director
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2017
Bazin's Film
Movie Director
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2016
Scratch (Triptych 3)
Movie Director
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2015
Cycling Utrecht
Movie Director
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2014
You Look Like Me
Movie Director
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2013
Triptych - 2
Movie Director
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2011
The Reach of Resonance
Movie Himself
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2011
The Private Life of Cinema
Movie self
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2011
Thunder River
Movie Director
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2005
Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti
Movie Director of Photography
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2005
Trying to Describe Oneself
Movie Himself
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2005
The Statue of Giordano Bruno
Movie Animation
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2004
Between Science and Garbage
Movie Himself
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2002
Barbaloune
Movie Siméon
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2002
La Pirouette
Movie Producer
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2000
Black Soul
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1997
Under the Weather
Movie Producer
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1996
La Plante Humaine
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1989
La Lettre d'amour
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1987
Adieu bipède
Movie Director
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1984
Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway
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1984
Etienne et Sara
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1983
Memories of War
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1978
Entre chiens et loup
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1974
Santa Claus is Coming Tonight
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1974
A Piece of Cake
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1973
Du coq à l'âne
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1971
Catuor
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1971
Fundamental Principles in Genetics
Movie Director
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1969
The Crow and the Fox
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1968
Population Explosion
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1968
Around Perception
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1967
Opus 3
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1966
Op Hop/Hop Op
Movie Animation
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1966
Knowing to Learn
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