Pierre Hébert Movies

Canadian animated short

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:...

This feature documentary about education explores the mid-century state of learning in the classrooms of North America. New approaches to learning...

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...

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...

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...

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

Abstract film by Pierre Hébert, originally made in 1964 and remastered in 2007.

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

"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...

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 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...

“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...

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

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

Festive experimental animation

Under the watchful eye of a father, a child is born (first steps, named things) to a brand new awareness of the world.

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...