Yakushima's Forest
Depuis maintenant plusieurs années, le cinéaste d’animation Pierre Hébert travaille à une série de films de différents formats, sous le titre générique de Lieux et monuments. Travaillés parfois comme des carnets de voyages, mais aussi comme autant de films essais géopolitiques, cette série ambitieuse est unique dans le parcours au long cours de Pierre Hébert. Nous allons présenter la série complète en quatre séances successives, en débutant par la projection en primeur du plus récent volet, Le mont Fuji vu d’un train en marche.
As Pierre Hébert releases his last animation film, Le mont Fuji vu d'un train en marche, nineteen of his original drawings will be exhibited on the walls of the Cinémathèque for the occasion. Inspired by photographs taken in the forest of Yakushima, Japan, these charcoal sketches were used as the basis to produce a sequence of his feature film.
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Pierre Hébert's biography
Director of more than 40 films, including three features, Pierre Hébert worked at the National Film Board of Canada from 1965 to 1999. Since then, his filmmaking work has taken a multidisciplinary scope (live animation performances with musicians, video installations, collaboration with choreographers, drawing, and actions on the web). He also wrote several books and articles about cinéma. He recently resumed doing direct scratch animation for which he was well known in the 80’s and the 90’s. He received, in 2005, the Quebec «Albert Tessier» Cinema award for his complete works, in 2012, a carreer grant of Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and, in 2018, an Honorary Doctorate by the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, in Vancouver...
