Pierre Hébert Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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

“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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Canadian animated short

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...