Pierre Hébert

Pierre HÉBERT (1944, Canada) worked at the National Film Board of Canada, where he directed over 20 animation shorts and a feature, La Plante humaine (1996), which won the Best Quebec Feature Award. Afterwards, he became an independent artist and filmmaker. Since 2001, he has travelled the world with different musicians to present live animation performances. He has also published books and articles on cinema and animation, and worked as a visual artist. In 2005, he received the Albert Tessier Lifetime Achievement Cinema Award from the Quebec government, and in 2012, he received a career grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. He received a Special Career Award from the Tehran International Animation Festival in 2017. In 2018, he was awarded with an Honorary Doctorate by the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, in Vancouver. Le mont Fuji vu d’un train en marche/Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train (2021) had its world premiere at the Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montreal, and was part of the Contrechamp features competition of the Annecy International Animation Festival.

Filmography

Histoire d’une bébite/Story of a Bug (1962, short), Histoire verte/Story in Green (1962, short), Opus 1 (1964, short), Op Hop (1965, short), Population Explosion (1967, short), Opus 3 (1967, short), Autour de la perception/Around Perception (1968, short), Le Corbeau et le Renard (1970, short), Notions élémentaires de génétiques (1971, short), Du Coq à l’âne (1973, short), Père Noël, Père Noël! (1974, short), Entre chiens et loup/Between Dogs and Wolf (1978), Memories of War/Souvenir de guerre (1982), Etienne et Sara/Etienne and Sara (1984, short), Chants et danses du monde inanimé/Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway (1986, short), Love Addict (1986, short), Adieu bipède (1987, short), La Lettre d’amour (1988, short), La plante humaine (1996), Entre la science et les ordures (2003), Variations sur deux photographies de Tina Modotti (2004), La technologie des larmes (2005), La statue de Giordano Bruno (2005), Herqueville (2007), Triptyque (2009), Seule la main (2009), Praha-Florenc (2010), Place Carnot-Lyon (2011), Rivière au Tonnerre (2011), La Cage/The Cage (2012), Triptyque 2/Triptych 2(2012), John Cage-Halberstadt (2013), Tu ressembles à moi/You Look Like Me (2014, short), Berlin – Le passage du temps (2014), Cycling Utrecht (2015), Scratch (Triptyque-3) (2016), Le film de Bazin/Bazin’s Film (2017), Mais un oiseau ne chantait pas/But One Bird Sang Not (2018, short), Berlin – The Passage of Time (2018, short), The Statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville (2018, short), Selfportrait between Prag and Vienna (2021, short), Le Mont Fuji vu d’un train en marche/Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train (2021)

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