Pierre Hébert Movies

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

Miya Masaoka uses music to interact with plants and insects; Jon Rose turns fences into musical instruments with a violin bow in conflict zones...

"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...

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

A 2021 film by Pierre Hébert

Scratched directly onto 35mm film stock, this abstract film is a visual interpretation of a piece for solo violin based on a Bosnian popular song...

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 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...

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

This animated film, a small educational musical comedy, offers the viewer a proper enigma. He is very smart who succeeds in solving it the first...

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...

“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...

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:...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

Short animation from Tali