He returned to Quebec afterwards, where his parents are from, to study at the Montreal School of Fine Arts where he received the first prize in anatomy and sculpture.
Created in paper cut within three days, Metamorphoses earned him the silver medal at the Venice International Film Festival.
[1] Following this first experience as a director, Laurent Coderre continued to exploit the animated paper cut under camera method to createVisual search to accompany a musical frame, a short film on the visualization of the sounds through the color.
Zikkaron, a short film which had the artistic intention of "concretizing the man within the universe", multiplying the allegorical images symbolizing the cosmos and the first organisms on Earth and the human body.
Taking up the subject that was at the origin of Zikkaron (the human condition in the universe), he made two last animated films: Rencontre and Déclin, respectively in 1978 and 1980.