Pierre Hébert Movies

Abstract film by Pierre Hébert, originally made in 1964 and remastered in 2007.

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...

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 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...

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...

“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...

"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 hand-made, scratched-on film experiment in intermittent animation. The images are a group of twenty-four visuals, all non-representational, which...

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

A meditation on the passing of time, on a film that was never completed, upon Bazin’s death, on restoration and the future of ruins and on...

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...

Festive experimental animation

Short animation from Tali

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:...

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...

Canadian animated short

This film was made out of the capture of a live animation performance presented in Rome in January 2005 by Pierre Hébert and the musician Bob...

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