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Director of more than 40 films, including three features, Pierre Hébert worked at the National Film Board of Canada from 1965 to 1999. Since then, his filmmaking work has taken a multidisciplinary scope (live animation performances with musicians, video installations, collaboration with choreographers, drawing, and actions on the web). He also wrote several books and articles about cinéma. He recently resumed doing direct scratch animation for which he was well known in the 80’s and the 90’s. He received, in 2005, the Quebec «Albert Tessier» Cinema award for his complete works, in 2012, a carreer grant of Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and, in 2018, an Honorary Doctorate by the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, in Vancouver.

Scratch (excerpt)
France, 2018 / 8’11

Excerpt from the live performance of etching on film, presented at the Auditorium of the Louvre Museum in Paris, October 14, 2018. The images are created in real time by etching the 16 mm format frames of two “loops” of film projected by as many projectors. The sound is also created by scratching the same type of film in the area dedicated to the optical sound band.

Images: Pierre Hébert
Music engraved on film: Andrea Martignoni

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You Look Like Me
Canada, 2014 / 5’ 45

I passed you by, I only passed you by, on the street, in the subway,
or rather I saw you, I only saw you, on television, in the newspapers,
I read the story of your life, I saw photos of you,
I saw you passing by, only passing by,
but I couldn’t forget your eyes, they said to me :
“Little brother, little sister, you look like me.”

Direction: Pierre Hébert 
Production: Pierre Hébert and René Lussier
Text: Paule Marier
Translation and narration: Jim Corcoran
Music: René Lussier
Animation: Pierre Hébert
Sound mixing: Martin M. Messier

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