"Of course it is understood that in speaking of movement we do not speak of the flight of seagulls any more than in speaking of painting we speak of sunset." Len Lye and Laura Riding - 1935

FRANÇAIS

drawing, 25/08/10, ©Pierre Hébert

Work in progress

Visit the gallery of "petits dessins" and the gallery of "petits dessins-2".

RECENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS

April 13 2010 TV commercial for the album «Six» by Claire Pelletier. See the VIDEO.

May 20 2010 Artist talk at the Dum Umeny (House of the Art), in Brno, Czeck Republic.

June 2010 Beginning of the work on a new film Praha-Florenc (the socialist realism) done after a shooting I did in Prague on May 22 2010.

June 10 to 28, 2010 Drawings in the exhibition Tropy, Figury, Refreny, Mistogallerie, Brno, Tcheck Republic.

July 2010 Jury member for the animation competition of the Fantasia Film Festival, Montreal, July 8-28.

August 6 2010 Pierre Hébert his granted an honorary professorship by the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, in Vancouver.

August 22 2010 Beginning of the work on a new performance project, 29 Flies. Sound editing of the recording flies given to me by Claude Beaugrand.

October 19 2010 Performance with Stefan Smulovitz in Roberts Creek, British Columbia.

October 21 2010 Vancouver New Music Festival, presentation of Roberts Creek with Stefan Smulovitz. See the VIDEO.

October 23-28 2010 Banjaluka Animation Film Festival, jury member, retrospective program, conference and an Only the hand... performance in Serbian.

November 3-7 2010 Holland Animation Film Festival in Utrecht, solo performances, Only the hand... in Dutch and 49 Flies.

EVENTS OF THE LAST YEAR (2009-2010)

Archive of past years events - 2007, 2008, 2009.

New text in English on line:

The idea of animation and instrumental expression, (this is a rough translation of L'idée de l'animation et l'expression instrumentale).

New texts in French:

Animation et improvisation and Tentative de description instrumentale (autour de Triptyque et des Exercices d'animation) .

New videos on line :

My most recent film Triptych, the Only the hand... video installation, and Roberts Creek a performance presented in Toronto with Stefan Smulovitz.

"ONLY THE HAND..." VIDEO INSTALLATION

at la Cinémathèque québécoise, December 2009, ©Pierre Hébert

Notes and details about the installation project




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BLOG (the blog is written sometimes only in English, sometimes only in French, sometimes in both languages)




Last entry: 04/08/10




49 Flies/50 Mouches




This is a new piece that I am currently developing. It has two starting points.




First, it situates itself in the continuity of performance and studio work that I started in 2009. It was called “Animation Exercises”, it was performed publicly a few times and the film “Triptych” resulted from it. This new work is based on the same setup of my performance software and allows for the same style of improvisation that results in a non-linear approach to animation. The performance is based on a structure of short overlapping cycles in which images are being recorded for a short period of time and then erased to be replaced by new drawings, and so on. The drawings are made more to fit in the combinatory process that goes on than to add to the linear development of some kind of a storyline, as is usually the case in animation. Three loops of different length are superposed and each of them is altered by changes in speed, size, direction of animated motions, and order of the images. All this is processed in real time in parallel to the live creation of the images. The result is a very singular experience of “time”, both static and vertiginous.




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Image from  Triptych which was premiered at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma last October. Distribution : Vidéographe.










OTHER VIDEOS, films by other directors, that I find interesting and some of my films that are that are shown in totality









For more details about the DVD set Pierre Hebert, The Science of Moving Images, see the National Film Board of Canada web site.




DVD set





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