Pierre Hébert Movies

This animated short follows a group of happy vacationers sunbathing... under cloudy skies. Despite the weather, they look cheerful, eating ice cream...

In this experimental short film, Pierre Hébert explores perception using scratch animation, a technique employed by Norman McLaren. The title...

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

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

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...

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...

Short animation from Tali

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...

A 2021 film by Pierre Hébert

Festive experimental animation

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

Abstract film by Pierre Hébert, originally made in 1964 and remastered in 2007.

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...

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

"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...

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

“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...