Pierre Hébert

Born: 1944-01-19

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.


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Trying to Describe Oneself

as Himself
Released: 2005-11-04

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

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The Reach of Resonance

as Himself
Released: 2011-03-21

Miya Masaoka uses music to interact with plants and insects; Jon Rose turns fences into musical...

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Between Science and Garbage

as Himself
Released: 2004-04-27

A whirlwind of improvisation combines the images of animator Pierre Hébert with the avant-garde...

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