Agency - French program:.Animation and Youth Studio.

Writing, Michèle Lemieux ; animation, Michèle Lemieux ; direction, Michèle Lemieux ; editing, Annie Jean ; sound design, Olivier Calvert ; foley, Lise Wedlock ; recording, Geoffrey Mitchell, Luc Léger ; re-recording, Serge Boivin, Shelley Craig ; digital imaging specialist, Pierre Plouffe, Susan Gourley ; executive producer, René Chénier ; producer, Julie Roy.

Voice, Louis Champagne.

Recorded 2012.

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.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Grand Prix of the Rencontres, 2012 3rd Award - The Bronze Pegasus, 2012 Best Animation Technique, 2013 Grand Prize, 2012 Special mention, 2012 Special Mention, 2012 Best sound, 2012 Best Short Film, 2012 Best of Program Award, 2013

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).