Les films de Pierre Hébert
Director of more than 40 films, including three features (The Human Plant, 1996, Bazin’s Film, 2017 and Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train, 2021), Pierre Hébert worked at the National Film Board of Canada from 1965 to 1999. He is now an independent artist and his filmmaking work has taken a multidisciplinary scope (live animation performances with musicians, video installations, collaboration with choreographers, drawing, and actions on the web). He has also published several books on cinema as well as two drawing books. Since 2010, he pursues his Places and Monuments project combining animation and documentary, for which he received the prestigious career grant of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec in 2012 . In 2005, he was recipient of the Albert-Tessier Award for his complete works, and in 2018, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver.
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John Cage – Halberstadt
Through a combination of live shooting, digital processing, and animation, John Cage - Halberstadt expresses the temporal vertigo generated by the rendering of John Cage’s piece Organ2/ASLSP over a period of 639 years. The images were shot at the 12th change of note, on July 5th 2012, in the Burchardi Church in Halberstadt. This is number 5 in the Places and Monuments series.
Thunder River
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 meditation about opacity, about the fissures that can open up anything, any situation, on the infinity of meaning. It is the ontological moment, the moment of pure seeing, amongst the episodes of the Places and Monuments series that is a project of explora...
Herqueville
The Herqueville shoreline lies downhill from the Cogema nuclear waste processing plant, one of the world's largest. Its vitrified wastes are buried deep in the granite substrate at La Hague. In the summer of 2003, Michelle Corbisier and Serge Meurant, two friends of Pierre Hébert, visited Herqueville. Afterward, they created a series of etchings and poems. Wishing to associate himself with thei...
Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World - The Subway
Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World - The Subway
In this animated film without words, filmmaker Pierre Hébert and musicians Robert Marcel Lepage and René Lussier worked together, and separately, in their respective media. This cinema/music performance recreates, impressionistically, the dehumanizing environment of the urban subway. Drawings etch the outlines of people hurtling through space in underground tunnels. The soundtrack, elemental an...
John Cage – Halberstadt
Through a combination of live shooting, digital processing, and animation, John Cage - Halberstadt expresses the temporal vertigo generated by the rendering of John Cage’s piece Organ2/ASLSP over a period of 639 years. The images were shot at the 12th change of note, on July 5th 2012, in the Burchardi Church in Halberstadt. This is number 5 in the Places and Monuments series.
Thunder River
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 meditation about opacity, about the fissures that can open up anything, any situation, on the infinity of meaning. It is the ontological moment, the moment of pure seeing, amongst the episodes of the Places and Monuments series that is a project of explora...
Herqueville
The Herqueville shoreline lies downhill from the Cogema nuclear waste processing plant, one of the world's largest. Its vitrified wastes are buried deep in the granite substrate at La Hague. In the summer of 2003, Michelle Corbisier and Serge Meurant, two friends of Pierre Hébert, visited Herqueville. Afterward, they created a series of etchings and poems. Wishing to associate himself with thei...
Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World - The Subway
Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World - The Subway
In this animated film without words, filmmaker Pierre Hébert and musicians Robert Marcel Lepage and René Lussier worked together, and separately, in their respective media. This cinema/music performance recreates, impressionistically, the dehumanizing environment of the urban subway. Drawings etch the outlines of people hurtling through space in underground tunnels. The soundtrack, elemental an...
