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World Festival of Animated Film /
short film edition 29 May - 3 June 2012
World Festival of Animated Film / short film edition 29 May - 3 June 2012
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Le grand ailleurs et le petit ici / Here and the Great Elsewhere

Grand Competition 4

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Le grand ailleurs et le petit ici / Here and the Great Elsewhere


Michèle Lemieux

Canada / 2011 / 14' 24''



Projections


Wednesday, 30. 05.,
Cineplexx Centar Kaptol, Hall 3, 22:00 h
Friday, 01. 06.,
Europa Cinema, 20:00 h


Synopsis


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.

Michèle Lemieux


Michèle Lemieux began working as an illustrator in the late 1970s. For five years she worked in Germany, where she published her first books. Since 1988, the year she returned to Montreal, she has worked as a professor at UQAM’s École de design. Her illustrated books have been translated into more than twenty languages and have earned her many international awards, the most notable being the Bologna Ragazzi Award - the highest international honour in children's literature – in 1997. Many of her books have been made into films or performed on stage. She spent 2000 through 2002 at the National Film Board of Canada, creating an animated film based on her book Stormy Night. In 2004, this film garnered the Crystal Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, as well as the prize for the best children’s film in Stuttgart, Germany. Her work has been seen in many exhibitions throughout Europe, North and South America and Japan.

 

Director

Michèle Lemieux


Production

National Film Board of Canada


Screenplay

Michèle Lemieux


Compositing

Benoit Chagnon


Sound

Olivier Calvert


Editing

Annie Jean


Animation

Michèle Lemieux


categories

Grand Competition 4