Pierre Hébert Movies

  • 1970
    Prélude et fugues - la grive des bois

    Prélude et fugues - la grive des bois

    Prélude et fugues - la grive des bois

    01970HD

    This work, shot on film stock, is constructed like a fugue, based on the tension between the ideal of freedom (the wood thrush) and the inevitability...

    Prélude et fugues - la grive des bois
  • 1966
    Knowing to Learn

    Knowing to Learn

    Knowing to Learn

    101966HD

    This feature documentary about education explores the mid-century state of learning in the classrooms of North America. New approaches to learning...

    Knowing to Learn
  • 1971
    Fundamental Principles in Genetics

    Fundamental Principles in Genetics

    Fundamental Principles in Genetics

    01971HD

    Fundamental Principles in Genetics
  • 2014
    You Look Like Me

    You Look Like Me

    You Look Like Me

    02014HD

    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...

    You Look Like Me
  • 1963
    Histoire Verte

    Histoire Verte

    Histoire Verte

    01963HD

    “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...

    Histoire Verte
  • 2016
    Scratch (Triptych 3)

    Scratch (Triptych 3)

    Scratch (Triptych 3)

    02016HD

    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...

    Scratch (Triptych 3)
  • 1966
    Op Hop/Hop Op

    Op Hop/Hop Op

    Op Hop/Hop Op

    6.7861966HD

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

    Op Hop/Hop Op
  • 2018
    La statue de Robert E. Lee à Charlottesville

    La statue de Robert E. Lee à Charlottesville

    La statue de Robert E. Lee à Charlottesville

    02018HD

    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:...

    La statue de Robert E. Lee à Charlottesville
  • 2011
    Thunder River

    Thunder River

    Thunder River

    02011HD

    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...

    Thunder River
  • 2021
    Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train

    Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train

    Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train

    02021HD

    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...

    Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train
  • 2004
    Between Science and Garbage

    Between Science and Garbage

    Between Science and Garbage

    5.22004HD

    A whirlwind of improvisation combines the images of animator Pierre Hébert with the avant-garde sound of techno whiz Bob Ostertag in this...

    Between Science and Garbage
  • 1984
    Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway

    Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway

    Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway

    8.51984HD

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

    Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway
  • 1974
    A Piece of Cake

    A Piece of Cake

    A Piece of Cake

    01974HD

    A Piece of Cake
  • 2021
    Palimpseste sur « Prison » de Robert Lapoujade

    Palimpseste sur « Prison » de Robert Lapoujade

    Palimpseste sur « Prison » de Robert Lapoujade

    02021HD

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

    Palimpseste sur « Prison » de Robert Lapoujade
  • 2005
    Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti

    Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti

    Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti

    02005HD

    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...

    Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti
  • 1989
    La Lettre d'amour

    La Lettre d'amour

    La Lettre d'amour

    71989HD

    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...

    La Lettre d'amour
  • 1964
    Opus 1

    Opus 1

    Opus 1

    71964HD

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

    Opus 1
  • 2015
    Cycling Utrecht

    Cycling Utrecht

    Cycling Utrecht

    02015HD

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

    Cycling Utrecht
  • 1978
    Entre chiens et loup

    Entre chiens et loup

    Entre chiens et loup

    01978HD

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

    Entre chiens et loup
  • 1967
    Opus 3

    Opus 3

    Opus 3

    81967HD

    "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...

    Opus 3