Pierre Hébert Movies

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

Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

Abstract film by Pierre Hébert, originally made in 1964 and remastered in 2007.

“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...

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

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

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...

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...

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:...

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

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

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