The Animation Pimp Part 2: Pierre Hébert and the Work of Animation in the Age of Digital Reproduction

The Pimp continues with his theories on projectionists and offers some solutions to their tyrannical control over presenting an artist’s work.

By Chris Robinson | Thursday, October 18, 2001 at 12:00 am

Posted In | Columns: The Animation Pimp

WHO
INDIR
ECTL
Y
MOTI
VATE
D MY
PROP
OSAL.
SINCE
THE
EARL
Y
1980S,
HÉBE
RT
HAS
BEEN
DOIN
G
SCRA
TCH
ANIM
ATIO
N
PERF
ORM
ANCE
S.
SOME
TIMES
,

HÉBE
RT
PERF
ORME
D
SOLO,
BUT
OFTE
N HE
WOR
KED
WITH
MUSC
IANS.
BY
THE
MID
1980S,
PERF
ORM
ANCE
ELEM
ENTS
BEGA
N TO
APPE
AR IN
HIS
FILMS
(LA
METR
O, O

PICAS
SO)
AND
IN
1988
HÉBE
RT
MADE
LETTR
E
D’AM
OUR,
A
FILM
VERSI
ON OF
A
MULT
I-
MEDI
A
PERF
ORM
ANCE.

IN
1999,
HÉBE
RT
LEFT
THE
NATI

ONAL
FILM
BOAR
D OF
CANA
DA
AFTE
R
BEIN
G
THER
E FOR
OVER
THRE
E
DECA
DES
AS AN
ANIM
ATOR
AND
PROD
UCER.
SINCE
THAT
TIME
HE'S
CONC
ENTR
ATED
ALMO
ST

EXCL
USIVE
LY
ON
THE
PERF
ORM
ANCE
ASPE
CT OF
HIS
WOR
K.
THRO
UGHO
UT
THE
LAST
TWO
YEAR
S,
HÉBE
RT
HAS
TOUR
ED
HIS
SCRA
TCH
ANIM
ATIO
N

PERF
ORM
ANCE
S
AROU
ND
THE
WORL
D.
THE
PERF
ORM
ANCE
GENE
RALL
Y
INVO
LVED
LIVE
SCRA
TCH
ANIM
ATIO
N
WITH
A
MUSI
CAL
COLL
ABOR
ATOR.
EACH

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