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Here and Elsewhere (French: Ici et Ailleurs) is a 1976 documentary film by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville. It is a film essay , narrated by Godard and Miéville, which began as a film entitled Jusqu'à la victoire , undertaken by the Dziga Vertov Group , the partnership of Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin who together made a ...
Sep 15, 1976 · Here and Elsewhere: Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville. With Jean-Luc Godard. The movie incorporates footage of fedayeens taken for an aborted pro-Palestinian film which had been abandoned when subjects were killed.
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- Documentary, War
- Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
- 1976-09-15
Here and Elsewhere marks Godard's transition into video experimentation and into sociology of the West's interactions with images (in particular, television) and how they both reflect and distort reality and cultural perceptions.
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In 1969, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin were commissioned by the Arab League to make a film on the Palestinian struggle for independence but abandoned the project after laboring for two years over the footage gathered on multiple trips to the Middle East.
English. 279 pages : 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Catalog of an exhibition held at the New Museum, New York, July 16-September 28, 2014. " [P]resents the work of over forty-five artists who share roots in the Arab world ..."--Page 2 of cover.
Commissioned by the Arab League to produce a film on the Palestinian Revolution, Godard and Gorin’s plans were upended by the Black September. Godard, now working with Miéville, transformed the original footage into a scathing self-critique—paralleling the lives of a French and a Palestinian family.
A dialectic is established here across time and space. "Here", in 1974 present time, a Parisian bourgeois family is watching TV in their cosy livingroom. "Elsewhere", in 1970, Godard and his Dziga Vertov company is in Palestine making a documentary about a strife that goes back in centuries and is expected to blossom into a revolution.
