September 17 2008 Collective improvisation of live animation between Jean Detheux, Pierre Hébert et the Basmati collective (Saul Saguatti from Bologna and Audrey Coïaniz from Marseille) with music by Jean Derome, Joane Hetu and Isaiah Ceccarelli. 21H:00 at the Casa Obscura, 4381 Papineau Street, Montreal, 514-527-0592. Read the NOTES. See the VIDEO.

September 5 2008 live video mixing Filature, musical theater by Joane Hétu, Guelph Jazz Festival, Guelph, Canada.

June 17-18 2008, communication at a symposium on "Mutations technologiques : histoire et effets culturels" (Technological mutations : history and cultural consequences), at l'INHA (Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art) in Paris.

June 1 to October 31 2008 4 minutes clip Short improvisation in homage to Émile Cohl is part of the exhibition L'Esprit d'Émile Cohl at the Musée-Chateau, Annecy, France. See the VIDEO.

May 21, 2008 presentation of a solo performance (Solo la mano...) and projection of La Plante humaine with Italian subtitles at ZO Culture, Catania, Sicily, Italy.

May 13 to 18, 2008 IO Project, presentation of films and a program of solo performances (Solo la mano... and Glaces) Macchiagodena, Italie. See the videos: VIDEO-1 and VIDEO-2 (shooting of the performance).

April 8 to 21, 2008 The Buenos AiresInternational Festival of Independent Films presented a complete retrospective of Pierre Hébert's films, the performance Special Forces by Pierre Hébert and Bob Ostertag and the Spanish translation of the book L'Ange et l'automate.

March 27 ,2008 - Living Cinema in New York. Pierre Hébert and Bob Ostertag present Special Forces at Roulette (20H:30, 20 Greene Street, between Canal and Grand, 212-219-8242). A Harvestworks Inside presentation. See the VIDEO

March 12-16, 2008 - Retrospective and performance (Seule la main...) at the International Short Film Festival in Saguenay. Films to be projected : Adieu Bipède, Entre chiens et loup, Herqueville, Histoire Verte, Love Addict and Songs and Dances of the Unanimated World - The Subway.

February 22, 2008 - Glaces with Pierre Duchesne, during ''Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois'' (Événement FIDO - Tryptique: Volatile Work, Karl Lemieux and Pierre Hébert in performance), 22H:00, at the SAQ Bistro, Cinémathèque Québécoise. See the VIDEO

February 16 , 2008 -Screening of Herqueville at ''Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois'' , 20H:30, Salle Fernand Séguin, Cinémathèque québécoise.

February 9 ,2008 - Ottoblix, designer of the Pierre Hébert, The science of moving images DVD set, has received the Grafika grand prix 2008, for CD-DVD sleeves.

For details about the DVD set see the NFB wesite:

December, 2007 Article by Louise Boisclair in the electronic magazine Archée, cyberart et cyberculture: Le Living cinema de Pierre Hébert ou l'expérimentation d'une méditation téléguidée (Pierre Hébert's Living cinema or the experimentation of a teleguided meditation).

November 29 , 2007- master thesis about Pierre Hébert (Pierre Hébert e la performance art, Matr. 701951) by Francesca Pirotta, Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia, Storia e Critica dell'Arte, Universita degli Studi di Milano, under the direction of professors Gianalberto Bendazzi et Giorgio Zanchetti.

October 24, 2007 - Solo performance Seule la main... with recorded music by Stefan Smulovitz, at the Claude Jutras Theater, Cinémathèque Québécoise. It is the opening event of the colloquium Pratiques orales du cinéma.

October 17, 2007- In the October/November issue of the film magazine 24 Images, there is a DVD edition of the Seule la main... performance (the 26/03/87 Beyrouth version) in the included DVD (Chutes et brûlures, 8 experimental films). There are also three articles about Pierre Hébert : Pierre Hébert en DVD by Marco de Blois, Pierre Hébert au Liban by Fabien Philippe and Seule la main... by Marcel Jean.

October 17, 2007 - During the Festival du nouveau cinéma, I will present a performance with the musicians Robert Marcel Lepage and René Lussier (my early collaborators of the first performances presented in 1984, among other venues at Cinema Outremont). We will revisit Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World - the Subway. The performance will be presented at the SAT (Société des arts technologiques).

October 2007 Interview of Pierre Hébert by Louise Boisclair about the DVD set Pierre Hébert, lthe science of moving images, in the autumn issue of the art magazine Vies des arts.

October 2007 -My new film Herqueville will be part of the program of Le Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (10-21 October) in Montreal.

October 2007 - During the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, the National Film Board of Canada will release the 3 DVD's set entitled Pierre Hébert, the science of moving images. The set will include most of my films produced by the NFB, and some earlier and later films, a CD with the music of Population Explosion by Ornette Coleman, and a 100 pages brochure.

Archives of events of passed years: 2007