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| Animation Special Retrospective |

SATURDAY MARCH 15, 20H > Salle Opéra

Pierre Hébert

For over 45 years, Pierre Hébert has created films that are thought-provoking by using optical searching, committed cinema, and performance animation. He is extraordinarily fastidious and intuitive in his questioning of the links between the soul, the body and image technology.

REGARD invites you to discover or re-discover this avant-garde filmmaker, an artist with an independent temperament who evolves simultaneously in the animated cinema, contemporary dance and actual music circles. He is one of the rare animated filmmakers who consistently confront reality and the present.

It wasn't until the mid-1980s that Hébert's painstaking work and unconventionality began to be recognized. He won several prizes, including the prize from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma in 1985 for Chants et Danses du monde inanimé - Le Métro. He received another award from Amsterdam's Melkweg Cinema in 1986 for his collection of works. In 1988, he was the first-ever recipient of the Prix Héritage-Norman-McLaren, an award given to a filmmaker whose work stands in the same league of quality and thought as the prize's namesake, one of the most celebrated animated filmmakers of all time. Hébert was awarded the Albert-Tessier prize in 2004.