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Pierre Hébert (animator)

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Pierre Hébert
Born (1944-01-19) January 19, 1944 (age 80)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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 - Hop Op 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 - Hop Op
  • 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.