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.
Op Hop/Hop Op
(Animation)
Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train
(Screenplay)
Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train
(Director)
Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train
(Editor)
Opus 3
(Director)
Triptych - 2
(Director)
Opus 3
(Animation)
Triptych - 2
(Animation)
Santa Claus is Coming Tonight
(Director)
Op Hop/Hop Op
(Director)
Around Perception
(Director)
Between Science and Garbage
(Animation)
Between Science and Garbage
(Director)
Etienne et Sara
(Director)
Thunder river (Places and Monuments 4)
(Director)
La statue de Robert E. Lee à Charlottesville
(Director)
Histoire Verte
(Director)
The Statue of Giordano Bruno
(Animation)
The Statue of Giordano Bruno
(Director)
Scratch (Triptych 3)
(Director)
Around Perception
(Music)
Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti
(Director of Photography)
Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti
(Producer)
Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti
(Director)
Opus 1
(Director)
Du coq à l'âne
(Director)
Du coq à l'âne
(Animation)
Du coq à l'âne
(Screenplay)
You Look Like Me
(Director)
Adieu bipède
(Director)
La Plante Humaine
(Director)
Bazin's Film
(Director)
Memories of War
(Director)
Knowing to Learn
(Animation)
La Pirouette
(Producer)
Under the Weather
(Producer)
Population Explosion
(Director)
Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway
(Director)
La Lettre d'amour
(Director)
Bazin's Film
(Writer)
Cycling Utrecht
(Director)
But One Bird Sang Not
(Director)
The Fox and the Crow
(Director)
Fundamental Principles in Genetics
(Director)
A Piece of Cake
(Director)
La Plante Humaine
(Writer)
Entre chiens et loup
(Director)
Catuor
(Producer)