Pierre Hébert Movies

  • 1966
    Knowing to Learn

    Knowing to Learn

    Knowing to Learn

    01966HD

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

    Knowing to Learn
  • 2005
    Trying to Describe Oneself

    Trying to Describe Oneself

    Trying to Describe Oneself

    7.42005HD

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

    Trying to Describe Oneself
  • 2017
    Bazin's Film

    Bazin's Film

    Bazin's Film

    72017HD

    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...

    Bazin's Film
  • 1996
    La Plante Humaine

    La Plante Humaine

    La Plante Humaine

    71996HD

    La Plante Humaine
  • 2011
    Thunder river (Places and Monuments 4)

    Thunder river (Places and Monuments 4)

    Thunder river (Places and Monuments 4)

    02011HD

    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...

    Thunder river (Places and Monuments 4)
  • 2004
    Between Science and Garbage

    Between Science and Garbage

    Between Science and Garbage

    5.22004HD

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

    Between Science and Garbage
  • 1983
    Memories of War

    Memories of War

    Memories of War

    6.21983HD

    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...

    Memories of War
  • 1963
    Histoire Verte

    Histoire Verte

    Histoire Verte

    01963HD

    “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...

    Histoire Verte
  • 2011
    The Reach of Resonance

    The Reach of Resonance

    The Reach of Resonance

    02011HD

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

    The Reach of Resonance
  • 2002
    Barbaloune

    Barbaloune

    Barbaloune

    02002HD

    Barbaloune
  • 1966
    Op Hop/Hop Op

    Op Hop/Hop Op

    Op Hop/Hop Op

    6.21966HD

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

    Op Hop/Hop Op
  • 2005
    Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti

    Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti

    Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti

    02005HD

    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...

    Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti
  • 2021
    Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train

    Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train

    Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train

    02021HD

    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...

    Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train
  • 1971
    Fundamental Principles in Genetics

    Fundamental Principles in Genetics

    Fundamental Principles in Genetics

    01971HD

    Fundamental Principles in Genetics
  • 1974
    A Piece of Cake

    A Piece of Cake

    A Piece of Cake

    01974HD

    A Piece of Cake
  • 1978
    Entre chiens et loup

    Entre chiens et loup

    Entre chiens et loup

    01978HD

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

    Entre chiens et loup
  • 2018
    But One Bird Sang Not

    But One Bird Sang Not

    But One Bird Sang Not

    02018HD

    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...

    But One Bird Sang Not
  • 1984
    Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway

    Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway

    Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway

    81984HD

    In this animation film without words, filmmaker Pierre Hébert and musicians Robert Lepage and René Lussier worked together, and...

    Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway
  • 1973
    Du coq à l'âne

    Du coq à l'âne

    Du coq à l'âne

    01973HD

    This animated film, a small educational musical comedy, offers the viewer a proper enigma. He is very smart who succeeds in solving it the first...

    Du coq à l'âne
  • 1968
    Population Explosion

    Population Explosion

    Population Explosion

    01968HD

    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...

    Population Explosion