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One can see that these two possibilities depend on the choices and methods of each filmmaker. As Pierre Hébert has written, for example, the technique of scraping the film stock is “more the effect of a constraining conceptual and technical approach than the effect of [his] will.”^[6] The various techniques tried out at the NFB thus had an impact on the styles and forms produced, which were dependent less on the artist’s graphic imagination than on the systems established to produce them.