Pierre Hébert Movies

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:...

Abstract film by Pierre Hébert, originally made in 1964 and remastered in 2007.

Festive experimental animation

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...

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...

In Adieu bipède (1987), Hébert turned to performance, using the scratching technique for the scenes with dancing and music. He used the...

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

"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...

“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...

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

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 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 film is about cats--actually, one very clever cat. The title is a play on the French quatuor, meaning quartet, but the chorus is not the usual...

Abstract film made from the video capture of a live animation performance presented in Vienna on May 30th 2011 at the Stadtkirche with Andrea...

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

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 2021 film by Pierre Hébert

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