Pierre Hébert Movies

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

Festive experimental animation

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...

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

This haunting animation film, rich with symbolism, is the filmmaker's plea for a peaceful world in which to raise his newborn son. Using the menacing...

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

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...

Abstract film by Pierre Hébert, originally made in 1964 and remastered in 2007.

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 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...

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

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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.