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Pierre Hébert
Formerly an employee of the National film board of Canada where between 1965 and 1999 he directed over twenty animation shorts and a feature (La Plante humaine, best Quebec feature award 1996), Pierre Hébert is now an independent artist and filmmaker. Since 2001, he traveled the world with his musician colleague Bob Ostertag presenting the Living Cinema live animation performance over 80 times. He also worked with many other musicians. He equally collaborated with dance companies in New York, Montreal and France and published two books and many articles on cinema and animation. He also pursue a carreer as a visual artist (drawings, installations, web projects). Currently, his main project is a new series of films Places and Monuments for which he received, in 2012, from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec the prestigious "career grant" for cinema. In 2005, he was the recipient of the “Albert Tessier” cinema award from the Quebec government for lifetime achievement, in 2017, he received a special carreer award from the Tehran International Animation Festival, and in 2018, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
As director
Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train
Palimpseste sur « Prison » de Robert Lapoujade
Palimpsest on “Prison” by Robert Lapoujade
La statue de Robert E. Lee à Charlottesville
But One Bird Sang Not
Bazin's Film
Scratch (Triptych 3)
Cycling Utrecht
You Look Like Me
Triptych - 2
Thunder River
The Statue of Giordano Bruno
Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti
Between Science and Garbage
La Plante Humaine
La Lettre d'amour
Adieu bipède
Etienne et Sara
Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway
Memories of War
Entre chiens et loup
Santa Claus is Coming Tonight
A Piece of Cake
Du coq à l'âne
Fundamental Principles in Genetics
The Crow and the Fox
Around Perception
Population Explosion
Opus 3
Op Hop/Hop Op
