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Pierre Hébert

Formerly an employee of the National film board of Canada, where between 1965 and 1999 he directed over 20 animation shorts and a feature (La Plante humaine, AQCC/SODEC Best Quebec Feature Award 1996), Pierre Hébert is now an independent artist and filmmaker. Since 2001, he has traveled the world with musician Bob Ostertag, presenting the Living Cinema live animation performance over 80 times. He has worked with many other musicians, including Fred Frith, Lori Freedman, Stefan Smulovitz, and Robert Marcel Lepage. He has collaborated with dance companies in New York, Montréal and France and published two books and many articles on cinema and animation. For some years, he has also pursued a career as a visual artist (drawings, installations, and web projects). He is currently working on a new series of films, Places and Monuments, for which he received, in 2012, the prestigious ‘career grant’ for cinema from the Conseil des arts et des Lettres du Québec. In 2005, he was awarded the Prix Albert Tessier from the Quebec government for lifetime achievement in cinema; in 2017, he received a special career award from the Tehran International Animation Festival and, in 2018, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.