Wednesday 24 February 2010
NEWS - recent and upcoming events
By Pierre Hébert,
Wednesday 24 February 2010 at 16:06 :: News and events
"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
Drawing, January 2010, ©Pierre Hebert
New series of texts on line (French only):
L'expression instrumentale et la pensée d'André Martin , Animation et improvisation and Tentative de description instrumentale (autour de Triptyque et des Exercices d'animation) (in which I just added comments on the new occurence of live scratched animation in my work).
New videos on line :
Only the hand... in Ojibway and in Innu, my most recent film Triptych, and the video installation Only the hand....
UPCOMING EVENTS
December 3-20 2009 First version of the Only the hand... installation at La Cinémathèque québécoise in Norman McLaren exhibition hall with twelve parallel projections in twelves different languages.
Image from «Only the hand» in Innu (Muku mititshi...) ©Pierre Hébert
Decembre 4 2009 Solo performance Only the hand... in Innu (Muku mititshi... watch a video of a rehearsal), followed by a joint performance with Karl Lemieux (live music by alexandre St-Onge and Roger Tellier-Craig, 19H:00, Animation Summits, Norman McLaren exhibition hall, Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal.
December 15 2009 Dialogic meeting about the video installation Only the hand... with the Streams of Consciousness group led by Professor Norman Cornett.
December 18 2009 Cinéma d’animation, improvisation et présence du corps, présentation for the research group Performativité et effet de présence, Université du Québec à Montréal.
January 2 2010 Beginning of the final work on the video conception of the show Nitshisseniten e tshissenitamin by Chloé Sainte-Marie.
February 10 2010 Opening of the show Nitshisseniten e tshissenitamin ( I know that you know) by Chloé Sainte-Marie, totally sung in the Innu aboriginal language, at Théâtre du Gésu, in Montréal. Direction: Brigitte Haentjens, set design:Simon Guilbault, video : Pierre Hébert.
February 20 2010 Screening of my latest film, Triptych, at Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, 13H:00, Cinéma ONF, 1564 St-Denis, Montreal. SEE THE VIDEO
Images from Triptych which was premiered at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma last October. Distribution : Vidéographe.
February 22 2010 Received by mail L'improvisation : ordres et désordres (Improvisation, order and disorder), Textuel no 60 (revue de l'UFR Lettres, Arts, Cinéma, Université Paris-Diderot), with my text Animation et improvisation. This is the review of the colloquium held in Paris in January 2009, during the Sons d'hiver festival, in which I participated.
February 22 2010 Also received today, the cinéma magazine 24 images no 146 (March-April 2010) with my text about the presentation at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, of Mamora, the new film film by Karl Lemieux (Mamora, mise en exposition du cinéma).
March 25-26 2010 Artist talk at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Kelowna.
EVENTS OF THE LAST YEAR (2009-2010)
Archive of past years events - 2007, 2008, 2009.
BLOG (the blog is written sometimes only in English, sometimes only in French, sometimes in both languages)
Last entry: 20/02/10
Clip blocked on YouTube
This week I had a very troubling experience when I tried to put on line, in my YouTube account, an extract of my film Triptych. The soundtrack of the film was scanned by a digital robot which surprisingly found a correspondence between a segment of Bob Ostertag’s music and an unidentified song owned by WMG (Warner Music Group). It happens that I am absolutely sure that Bob Ostertag is the genuine author of the music of my film and I have the proof that he authorized me to use that music on my film. I also know that Bob Ostertag’s music in general and this piece in particular («DJ of the Month», one of the most extreme musical project that I know of, it can be downloaded for free from Bob Ostertag’s site - http://bobostertag.com/music-recordings.htm) has nothing to do with the kind of music produced by the Warner Music Group. It is quite surrealistic to even imagine that there would be a relationship. But a robot decided on the matter and the clip was blocked for the entire world. Fortunately, it seems that the ban is not entirely working as some people succeeded to view the clip.
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.
