Pierre Moretti

Movies

Bioscope
Director
Animated film on the human condition which symbolically illustrates the different states of mind experienced by an individual, from birth to death.
Beginnings
Executive Producer
An animated film created from pastel drawings by Clorinda Warny, Premiers Jours traces the complete cycle of life, from birth to adulthood, in four seasons, and through the evolution of earthly landscapes that become human bodies. Completed Postumously by Suzanne Gervais, Lina Gagnon
Graphic Variations on Telidon
Director
"In an effort to explore the flexibility of Telidon, Canada's videotex system, Pierre Moretti, animation artist from the National Film Board, used, in the graphic mode, the geometric figures which form the basis for Telidon's picture description instructions. Thus he created this short animated film."
Chairmen
Executive Producer
This short animated film presents an allegorical portrait of a society where men have lost their autonomy in the struggle to be recognized by the very society that restricts their freedom.
The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend
Producer
An owl marries a goose. They have off-spring, but somehow their habits of life are not compatible.
Lumaaq: An Eskimo Legend
Producer
An Inuit tale of familial revenge.
The Man and the Giant: An Eskimo Legend
Producer
This short film, in which a hunter is pursued, bound up and carries to a cave, tells the legend of a river, and of how fog came to the land. The story is enacted using katadjak or throat singing.
The Owl and the Raven: An Eskimo Legend
Producer
Using life-like seal fur puppets, this animated short by Co Hoedeman tells the traditional Inuit tale of the owl and the raven.
This Is a Recorded Message
Producer
This experimental animated short takes a critical look at consumerism in a material world. Thousands of cut-out ads are presented in increasingly fragmented, rapid succession. The film's disorienting and hectic pace seeks to interrogate the extent to which seductive advertising is a shockingly strong force in shaping our desires, needs, and lives in contemporary capitalism.
Air!
Producer
Although only a couple of minutes long, this animated short makes the point that oxygen is the stuff of life whether on land, in the air or water, but that it is becoming scarcer as man-made pollutants crowd it out. This is a film without words in which plants, birds, fish and, finally, man come to the same "breathless" end
Tchou-tchou
Producer
This short children's film by Co Hodeman tells the story of 2 children and their encounter with an angry dragon, all represented by colourful building blocks.
The Owl and the Lemming: An Eskimo Legend
Producer
Using life-like seal fur puppets, this animated short by Co Hoedeman tells the traditional Inuit tale of the owl and the lemming.
Cerveau gelé
Director
Musician and composer 'Claude Dubois' presents his view of the effects of the growth of urban areas, specifically industrialization and overuse of non-human elements resulting in a need to overly control how we as people live within this environment. Human images are interspersed with more controlled mechanized ones. Those human images are first free flowing, then floundering under that mechanization, then ultimately trapped into chaos or into death.
Bronze
Director
Follows the work of sculptor Charles Daudelin. Without dialogue or narration, director Pierre Moretti traces the adventure of creation. We see a gigantic sculpture as it begins to take shape, and finally when it is placed in the National Arts Center in Ottawa.
A Child in His Country
Director
A childhood fantasy where dreams carry a boy far to adventure. He arrives in Canada on an ocean liner and is, in turn, a hunter of polar bear, a cowboy, a hockey star, and a swimmer.