Formerly an employee of the National Film Board of Canada where he directed over twenty animation shorts and a feature (La Plante Humaine, Prix SODEQ-AQCC for best feature film in 1996), Pierre Hébert is now an independent artist and filmmaker. Since 2001, he traveled the world with different musicians to present live animation performances. He equally collaborated with choreographers, published books and articles on cinema and animation, and pursue a career as a visual artist. His current project is a new series of films Places and Monuments for which he received the prestigious Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec «career grant» for cinema. In 2005, he was the recipient of the “Albert Tessier” cinema award from the Quebec government for lifetime achievement.