Pierre Hébert
Born (1944-01-19) January 19, 1944
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Years active1960s–present

Pierre Hébert (born January 19, 1944) is a Canadian animator from Montreal, Quebec,[1] most noted for his 1996 feature film The Human Plant (La Plante humaine).[2]

He has also had occasional acting roles, notably in Jean Pierre Lefebvre's films The Revolutionary (Le Revolutionnaire) and My Eye (Mon œil).

Awards

His early short film Op Hop was the winner of the award for Best Short Film at the 1967 Montreal International Film Festival.[3]

The Human Plant won the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois in 1997.[4]

He is a two-time Genie Award nominee for Best Animated Short, receiving nods at the 18th Genie Awards in 1997 for Under the Weather (À l'ombre),[5] and at the 23rd Genie Awards in 2003 for Pirouette,[6] and a three-time Jutra Award/Prix Iris nominee for Best Animated Short Film, with nods at the 14th Jutra Awards in 2012 for Rivière au Tonnerre,[7] the 15th Jutra Awards in 2013 for Triptych 2 (Triptyque 2),[8] and the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019 for But One Bird Sang Not (Mais un oiseau ne chantait pas).[9]

He was the 2004 recipient of the Prix Albert-Tessier for lifetime achievement in Quebec cinema.[10]

Filmography

Director

  • 1962 - Histoire verte
  • 1962 - Histoire d'une bébite
  • 1963 - Petite histoire méchante
  • 1964 - Opus 1
  • 1966 - Op Hop
  • 1966 - Opus 3
  • 1968 - Population Explosion (Explosion démographique)
  • 1968 - Around Perception (Autour de la perception)
  • 1969 - Le Corbeau et le renard
  • 1971 - Fundamental Principles in Genetics (Notions élémentaires de génétique)
  • 1973 - Du coq à l'âne
  • 1974 - A Piece of Cake (C'est pas chinois)
  • 1974 - Santa Claus Is Coming Tonight (Père Noël, père Noël)
  • 1978 - Entre chiens et loup
  • 1982 - Memories of War (Souvenirs de guerre)
  • 1984 - Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway (Chants et danses du monde inanimé: Le métro)
  • 1984 - Étienne et Sara
  • 1985 - Love Addict (Offenbach)
  • 1987 - Adieu bipède
  • 1989 - La Lettre d'amour
  • 1996 - The Human Plant (La Plante humaine)
  • 2002 - Between Science and Garbage
  • 2004 - Variations sur deux photographies de Tina Modotti
  • 2005 - La technologie des larmes
  • 2005 - La statue de Giordano Bruno
  • 2007 - Herqueville
  • 2009 - Praha-Florenc
  • 2009 - Triptych (Triptyque)
  • 2011 - Place Carnot-Lyon
  • 2012 - Rivière au Tonnerre
  • 2012 - Triptych 2 (Triptyque 2)
  • 2013 - The Cage (La Cage)
  • 2014 - You Look Like Me (Tu ressembles à moi)
  • 2016 - Scratch (Triptyque 3)
  • 2017 - Bazin's Film (Le Film de Bazin)
  • 2018 - But One Bird Sang Not (Mais un oiseau ne chantait pas)
  • 2021 - Mount Fuji Seen from a Moving Train (Le mont Fuji vu d'un train en marche)
  • 2021 - Selfportrait Between Prague and Vienna (Autoportrait entre Prague et Vienne)

Producer

  • 1970 - Catuor
  • 1971 - Des ensembles
  • 1971 - Cycle
  • 1971 - The Little Men of Chromagnon (Les Bibites de Chromagnon)
  • 1997 - The Lighthouse (Le Phare)
  • 1997 - Under the Weather (À l'ombre)
  • 1998 - The Threshold (Le seuil)
  • 1998 - My Child, My Land (Mon enfant, ma terre)
  • 1999 - The Dead Tree (L'Arbre mort)
  • 1999 - The Hat (Le Chapeau)
  • 2000 - Lonesome Monsieur Turgeon (La Solitude de Monsieur Turgeon)
  • 2000 - Josephine
  • 2000 - Black Soul (Âme noire)
  • 2000 - 1974
  • 2001 - The Song-Catcher (Chasse papillon)
  • 2002 - Pirouette
  • 2003 - L'Éternel et le brocanteur

References

  1. ↑ Marcel Jean and Michel Coulombe (2006). Le dictionnaire du cinéma québécois. Boréal. ISBN 2-7646-0427-0. OCLC 66894275.
  2. ↑ Sonia Safarti, "La vie intérieure d'une plante humaine". La Presse, November 23, 1996.
  3. ↑ "Canadian Film Festival Winners Booed". Montreal Gazette, August 14, 1967.
  4. ↑ "La Plante Humaine wins best feature-film honors at Rendez-vous du Cinema Quebecois". Montreal Gazette, March 10, 1997.
  5. ↑ Playback Staff (November 17, 1997). "The 1997 Genie Awards". Playback. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
  6. ↑ Gayle MacDonald, "Ararat leads but Egoyan left out". The Globe and Mail, December 11, 2002.
  7. ↑ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Prix Jutra 2012: voilà les nominations". Films du Québec, January 31, 2012.
  8. ↑ "Jutra : Laurence anyways et Rebelle en tête des nominations". Ici Radio-Canada, January 31, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Gala Québec Cinéma : 1991 de Ricardo Trogi mène la course avec 16 nominations". Radio-Canada (in French). April 11, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
  10. ↑ Odile Tremblay, "Prix Albert-Tessier - Des idées et des images". Le Devoir, November 13, 2004.
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