Independent films

2021 – Palimpsest on Prison by Robert Lapoujade
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Video HD, 14 min. Exercice made for a single presentation at the Day of study around the work of  Robert Lapoujade, Paris, September 24, 2021. See the text (in French only).
2021- Selfportrait between Prag and Vienna (Places and Monuments – 12)
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HD video, 8:55 min., independent production, directed by Pierre Hébert.
Description, festivals, video extract, credits and technical specifications.

2021- Mount Fuji seen from a moving train (Places and monuments – 11/3)
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HD video, 121 minnutes, independent production, directed by Pierre Hébert, featuring Teita Iwabuchi.
Description, festivals, video extract, credits and technical specifications.

2018- Berlin – The Passage of Time (Places and Monuments 10)
Stadtschloss
HD video, 36 minutes, independent production, directed by Pierre Hébert. Film version film of the Berlin – The Passage of Time video installation.
Description, festivals, video extract, credits and technical specifications.

2018 – but one bird sang not / mais un oiseau ne chantait pas
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Video HD, 5:50, engraved on 35mm film stock, independant production, directed by Pierre Hébert, music by Malcolm Goldstein.
Description, festivals, video extract, credits and technical specifications.

2018 – The Statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville (Places and Monuments-9)

 

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HD Video, 25 min., independent production, direction, Pierre ébert and music by René Lussier.

Description, festivals, video extracts, credits and technical specifications.


 

2017 – Bazin’s Film (Places and Monuments-8)

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HD video feature length film (71 min.), Independent production with the collaboration of Marianne Dautrey and Hervé Joubert-Laurencin, with the help of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Music by Robert Marcel Lepage.

With the voice of Michael Lonsdale.

Available in V.O.D. on Vimeo.

Description, festivals, video extracts, credits and technical specifications.


2016/2017…- The Scratch project.

 

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My return to scratching on film after a 15 years break through a multidimentional project including gif’s, films, performances, and video installations. More details about the project.


 

2010/2016…-The Places and Monuments project.

 

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This is a series of films and video installations that deals with History, memory, forgetting, daily life that goes on around monuments. The eleventh film of the series, Mount Fuji seen from a moving train, was just completed. More details about the project.


2016 – Scratch (Triptych-3)

 

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Directly sctached animation on 16 and 35 mm film, HD video, 9:55, directed and independently produced by Pierre Hébert, music by Malcolm Goldstein. Description, festivals, video extracts, credits and technical specification.


2015 – Cycling Utrecht (Places and Monuments – 7)

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Single channel version of a two screens video installation. HD video, 13:10, comissioned by the Holland Animation Film Festival and the City of Utrecht.

Description, festivals, video extracts, credits and technical specification.

 

2014 – You look like me

 

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HD video, 5:45, directed and independently produced by Pierre Hébert and René Lussier, text by Paule Marier, translation and narration by Jim Corcoran, music by René Lussier, animation by Pierre Hébert. Description, festivals, video extracts, credits and technical specifications.


2013- John Cage – Halberstadt (Places and Monuments-5)

 

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with a bass clarinet improvisation by Lori Freedman, vidéo HD, 10:54, independent production with the help of Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Description, festivals, video extracts, credits and technical specifications. See an extract.

Available in V.O.D. on Vitheque


2012- Triptych-2

 

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with music by Andrea Martignoni, HD video, 10 min., independent prod. Description, festivals, video extracts, credits and technical specifications Read the notes. See an extract.


2011- Thunder River (Places and Monuments-4)

 

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with music by Andrea Martignoni, HD video, 7 min., independent prod. Description, festivals, video extracts, credits and technical specifications See an extract.

Available in V.O.D. on Vitheque


2011- Place Carnot-Lyon (Places and Monuments-2)

 

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with music by Stefan Smulovitz, HD video, 7:15 min., independent prod., with the assistance of le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Description, festivals, video extracts. credits and technical specifications. See an extract.

Available in V.O.D. on Vitheque


2009- Praha-Florenc (Places and Monuments-1)

 

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with music by Stefan Smulovitz, video, 10 min. independent prod. Description, festivals, video extracts, credits and technical specifications. See an extract. Read the notes.


2009- Triptych

 

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with music by Bob Ostertag, HD video, 30 min., independent prod. Description, festivals, video extracts, credits and technical specifications. Read the text and the notes (only in French), See an extract.


2007- Herqueville

 

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with prints by Michelle Corbisier, poems by Serge Meurant, and music by Fred Frith, HD video, 22 min., independent prod. Description, festivals, video extracts, credits, interview, and technical specification. Read the notes . See an extract. See the film on Vitheque (payment required).


2005- The Statue of Giordano Bruno

 

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codirected with Bob Ostertag, video, 12 :09 min. independent production. Description, festivals, video extracts, credits and technical specifications See an extract.

Available in V.O.D. on Vitheque


2005- The Technology of Tears

 

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music by Fred Frith, video, 13 :56 min., independent production. Description, festivals, video extracts, credits and technical specifications. See an extract. See the film on Vitheque (payment required).


2004- Variations on two photographs by Tina Modotti

 

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with music by Ana Lara and Michel F. Côté, video, 37 min., independent production. Description, festivals, video extracts, credits, notes and technical specifications – See an extract. See the film on Vitheque (payment required).


2003- Between Science and Garbage

 

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codirected with Bob Ostertag, 49 min. 34 sec. Vidéo et DVD (Tzadik), independent production. special mention, Montreal International Festival of New Cinema, best creation prize of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (quebec Art Council). See an extract. Stills available here. See the film on Vitheque (payment required).


1964- Opus 1, 4 m., 16mm, B&W, independent production. See the film on Vitheque (payment required).


1963- Petite histoire méchante (Short Silly Story), 30 s., 16mm, B&W, independent production.


1962- Histoire d’une bébite (Story of a Bug), 8 m., 16mm, B&W, independent production.


1962- Histoire verte (Story in Green), 3 m., 16mm, independent production.