Pierre Hébert Movies

A film in cut-out animation depicting the demographic problems of the world. It shows that in many countries freedom from the old scourges of famine...

This animated film, a small educational musical comedy, offers the viewer a proper enigma. He is very smart who succeeds in solving it the first...

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...

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

"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...

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...

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

This film is about cats--actually, one very clever cat. The title is a play on the French quatuor, meaning quartet, but the chorus is not the usual...

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 2021 film by Pierre Hébert

A palimpsest engraved on 35 mm black leader over the film Prison by LRobert apoujade (1962).

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...

Scratched directly onto 35mm film stock, this abstract film is a visual interpretation of a piece for solo violin based on a Bosnian popular song...

In Adieu bipède (1987), Hébert turned to performance, using the scratching technique for the scenes with dancing and music. He used the...

Festive experimental animation

“In Green / Gray Story, for the most part, [one saw] vertical streaks and textures, with patterns that flew by. It was partly washed film on...

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:...

Such diverse modes of expression as dance, music, poetic narration and images drawn directly on film combine to tell the story of a letter and the...