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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 (Until Victory), undertaken by the Dziga Vertov Group, the partnership of Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin who together made a number of political films between 1968 and 1972.
Here and Elsewhere incorporates footage of Palestinian fedayeen in Jordan, Lebanon, and the West Bank taken for Jusqu'à la victoire, which had been commissioned by the Arab League. The footage had been shelved in 1970 after many of the subjects were killed in the events of Black September.
Primarily the film is a criticism of how capitalism's use of media distorts the aims of liberative and revolutionary causes, among other aspects of economic and social disparities.
Ici et Ailleurs marks the beginning of Godard's transitional period, which found him experimenting in very original ways with video, and political and representational polemics; as such, it shares many of the traits of both his radical-era films and the video-centered work that followed. It is also one of his first projects with Miéville, who remained the major collaborator in his life and work since that period.