Here and Elsewhere

Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville, France, 1976, 53 min., Fr./Arab./Ger./Rus. with En. ST

Double Feature with The Ship Of Exile

> Tuesday, 30.04.2024 | 19:00 | Wolf Kino |

Followed by a Film Talk with film scholar Rula Shahwan (Film Scholar at Arab American University of Palestine, AAUP).

The massacre of Black September 1970 had brought Godard’s film project Jusqu’à la Victoire or Until Victory in support of the Arab cause in Palestine and in collaboration with the Palestine Film Unit to an ultimate end. Four years later, Godard decided to delve into the material he shot during his visits to Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan and, with the help of his partner Anne-Marie Miéville, tell a different story. Conceding to the gap between reality and representation, revolutionary ambitions, and political practices, Godard and Miéville weave the footage of Palestinian combatants through their struggles elsewhere together with the everyday life of a French family in the here and now. “The whole world is too much for one image,” they assert in a polyvalent essay that relocates the Palestinian question within Europe’s history of violence and reflects on defeat, on the contingencies of narration, and the limits of the image.