Le Grand Ailleurs et le Petit Ici, Michèle Lemieux (2012)

By | Published Wednesday, November 28, 2012


















Cinanima is an animation film festival held in Portugal and it is considered to be one of the most important within the genre. The 36th edition of the festival awarded Le grand ailleurs et le petit ici (Here and The Great Elsewhere) by Michèle Lemieux with the Grand Prix.
This 14 minutes long animation film uses a technique called pinscreen which was developed by Alexandre Alexeïeff and his wife Claire Parker. (to know more about this technique please watch the making of the film posted below)

Description

Lost in a reverie, a man reels with sudden, piercing awareness of his own state of being. He ponders the world in which he lives—from the evolution of life and the atomic particles that constitute matter, to the mystery of memory and the enigma of death. Bounded by a walled enclosure, he is both unique and no different than anyone else who has searched in vain for the key to the great beyond. Through four tableaux that explore her character’s thoughts, filmmaker Michèle Lemieux takes a mischievous look at the profound reflections of this everyman, whose questions are part of humanity’s eternal quest for meaning.
An abstract yet compelling philosophical tale, Here and the Great Elsewhere turns the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen into a metaphor for the particles that make up the universe.
(National Film Board of Canada website)

(watch the making of the video by following this link - zippyframes.com) 

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