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]
Pierre Hébert | |
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| Born | January 19, 1944 |
| Years active | 1960s–present |
He has also had occasional acting roles, notably in Jean Pierre Lefebvre's films The Revolutionary (Le Revolutionnaire) and My Eye (Mon œil).
Awards
editHis 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]
In 2024 he was the subject of Scratches of Life: The Art of Pierre Hébert (Graver l'homme: arrêt sur Pierre Hébert), a documentary film about his career by Loïc Darses.[11]
Filmography
editDirector
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ Marcel Jean and Michel Coulombe (2006). Le dictionnaire du cinéma québécois. Boréal. ISBN 2-7646-0427-0. OCLC 66894275.
- ^ Sonia Safarti, "La vie intérieure d'une plante humaine". La Presse, November 23, 1996.
- ^ "Canadian Film Festival Winners Booed". Montreal Gazette, August 14, 1967.
- ^ "La Plante Humaine wins best feature-film honors at Rendez-vous du Cinema Quebecois". Montreal Gazette, March 10, 1997.
- ^ Playback Staff (November 17, 1997). "The 1997 Genie Awards". Playback. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
- ^ Gayle MacDonald, "Ararat leads but Egoyan left out". The Globe and Mail, December 11, 2002.
- ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Prix Jutra 2012: voilà les nominations". Films du Québec, January 31, 2012.
- ^ "Jutra : Laurence anyways et Rebelle en tête des nominations". Ici Radio-Canada, January 31, 2013.
- ^ "Gala Québec Cinéma : 1991 de Ricardo Trogi mène la course avec 16 nominations". Radio-Canada (in French). April 11, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
- ^ Odile Tremblay, "Prix Albert-Tessier - Des idées et des images". Le Devoir, November 13, 2004.
- ^ "ONF – À l’affiche dès le 12 mai 2024 → GRAVER L’HOMME : ARRÊT SUR PIERRE HÉBERT, de Loïc Darses". CTVM, May 9, 2024.