Ici et ailleurs (1976)

Godard, Miéville and Gorin (aka the "Dziga Vertov Group") examine the parallel lives of two families - one French, one Palestinian - using an exploratory combination of film and video.

Directors:

Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin,

Writers:

Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin,

Stars:

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast

Credited cast:
Jean-Luc Godard	...	Narrator (voice)

Storyline

Godard, Miéville and Gorin (aka the "Dziga Vertov Group") examine the parallel lives of two families - one French, one Palestinian - using an exploratory combination of film and video.

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Plot Keywords:

watching tv | criticism | revolution | media | film making | 

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Genres:

Documentary | War

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French Arabic German

Release Date:

15 September 1976 (France)

Also Known As:

Here and Elsewhere

Company Credits

Production Co:

Gaumont, Sonimage

Technical Specs

Runtime:

53 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Did You Know?

Connections

Edited into Origins of the 21st Century (2000)

User Reviews

The most complex and probing analysis of Godard's Marxist period...

...with the possible exception of Godard's masterly "Marxist

Western" WIND FROM THE EAST. Godard's onetime crony Jean-Pierre Gorin shot some 16mm footage of Palestinian

resistance fighters in 1970; shortly thereafter, almost all the

people Gorin recorded were dead. Godard's film--with some

pungent, questioning commentary by Anne-Marie Mieville--uses

the footage to ask questions about "the representation of the

other": the interesting part is that Godard includes "the politically

sympathetic representation of the other" into his mix. Just when

you start noticing that Gorin's images of cute Palestinian children

doing commando exercises smacks of the Riefenstahlian, Mieville

comes along to point that out more succinctly and poetically than

you ever could. As poetic and eggheadily insular as Godard's

dialectic is, he interrogates the political image more thoroughly

than anyone else in movies. He does it by way of a close reading

that will only fail to exasperate those used to old-school

deconstructors: Godard mines a tremendous amount of insight

through a searching examination of his own use of the word "and"!

In an age when our experience of World War Three is massively

mediated by MSNBC and Fox News (and, as Godard points out,

their images, not just their Limbaughian play-by-play), ICI ET

AILLEURS is a needed deprogramming device. For God's sake,

find some obscure video store and rent it.