Here and Elsewhere (1976) [N/A]
Featuring:
Jean-Luc Godard
Written by:
Jean-Luc Godard
Anne-Marie Miéville
Directed by:
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Release Date:
September 15, 1976
Original Title:
Ici et Ailleurs
Alternate Titles:
Here and Elsewhere
Genres:
Documentary | War
Production Companies:
Gaumont
Sonimage
Production Countries:
France | Jordan
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 60
"Here is a family of average French people in front of their television. Elsewhere, they are Palestinian fighters filmed before the massacres of Black September." (JLG, 1976). "We came here to study this: to learn, to learn lessons, if possible to record these lessons, to then broadcast them here, or elsewhere in the world. Almost a year ago, two of us came to investigate the Democratic Front. Then another went to Fath. We read the texts and programs. As French Maoists, we decided to make the film with Fath whose title is Until Victory. We let the Palestinians , during the film, themselves say the word: "Revolution". But the true title of the film is Methods of Thought and Work of the Palestinian Liberation Movement." (JLG, Manifesto, July 1970)
The movie incorporates footage of fedayeens taken for an aborted pro-Palestinian film which had been abandoned when subjects were killed. Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the footage it shows of the fedayeens and of a French...
