Pierre Hébert Movies

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

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

Festive experimental animation

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

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

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

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

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...

An early experiment in employing computers to animate film. The result is a dazzling vibration of geometric forms in vivid color, an effect achieved...

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Abstract film by Pierre Hébert, originally made in 1964 and remastered in 2007.

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

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

"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 2021 film by Pierre Hébert

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...

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...