Pierre Hébert Movies

This work, shot on film stock, is constructed like a fugue, based on the tension between the ideal of freedom (the wood thrush) and the inevitability...

First, about ten years ago, there was a text by Paule Marier. Then, René Lussier made a song from that text for his 2014 album (Toucher une...

"A film in which both sound and image were created with a minimum of photographic or electronic equipment. The images are a few simple geometric...

A hand-made, scratched-on film experiment in intermittent animation. The images are a group of twenty-four visuals, all non-representational, which...

In this animation film without words, filmmaker Pierre Hébert and musicians Robert Lepage and René Lussier worked together, and...

This haunting animation film, rich with symbolism, is the filmmaker's plea for a peaceful world in which to raise his newborn son. Using the menacing...

A whirlwind of improvisation combines the images of animator Pierre Hébert with the avant-garde sound of techno whiz Bob Ostertag in this...

This is a poetic and animated meditation inspired by two trips the director made to Japan. Images and sounds from daily life as well as recordings of...

Abstract film by Pierre Hébert, originally made in 1964 and remastered in 2007.

Gives us a glimpse of a life which remains very monotonous despite the social upheavals that mark the country.

Cycling Utrecht is number seven in the «Places and Monuments» series. As with all the other opus of this series, the live action images...

In a world where work rhymes with identity and productivity, we meet a man in his fifties who has not worked for several years. A question is asked:...

Originally, the images of Variations on two photographs by Tina Modotti were engraved directly on 16mm film to be projected as a backdrop for Louis...

An intense exercise of looking at a rockface shot near the waterfalls of Rivière au tonnerre, on the North Shore of the St-Lawrence river. A...

In this experimental short film, Pierre Hébert explores perception using scratch animation, a technique employed by Norman McLaren. The title...

At the end of 2016, some circonstances made that after a gap of 15 years I resumed scratching directly on film. I first made a series of thirty one...

Festive experimental animation