Juonikuvaukset(1)
In 1976, Jean-Luc Godard made his self-critical film Ici et Ailleurs. He started the project in 1970 with his pro-Palestinian political film Jusqu'à la Victoire. When most of the Palestinian militants in the film died soon after, Godard began to question his own film and decided to make a new one. In it, he contrasts footage from Jusqu'à la Victoire with new material: "here" we see a middle-class French family watching television in 1975; "elsewhere" we see how Palestinian soldiers from Jusqu'à la Victoire train for their deaths as martyrs. Ici et Ailleurs is a critique of the methods used by Gothard's own Dziga Vertov Group, which made political films from 1968 to 1972 -- including Jusqu'à la Victoire. Godard demonstrates how he manipulated his own footage, such as when he used a close-up to conceal the fact that a Lebanese woman, explaining how proud she was to be bearing a child that might one day reinforce Palestinian troops, was not in fact pregnant. Ici et Ailleurs allows Godard to display the other reality lurking behind the one that the camera is focused on. (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)
(lisää)Arvostelut (1)
"Here" - a French bourgeois family. "There" - Palestine, one war had ended, another was being prepared. Scenes filmed around 1970, with their documentary and reportage approach, interestingly differ from later created essayistic sequences based on typical Godardian reflections on the world, reflections inseparable from reflections and practical discoveries of the essence of image/sound. The deconstruction of historical events and characters, image and sound, is once again absolute and enhanced by the use of video – the images constantly change their tone depending on the overall situation (from the author's commentary, the sound background, relationship to other images, etc.) in which they appear. /// Godard has already reduced his Jacobinism herein, and the perspective of his reflections is no longer so black and white (which, of course, only strengthens the tone of the film as a whole). There is a strong appeal for people in life not to forget that other people and their poverty, struggles, and sufferings are just "elsewhere" from our "here."
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