Centre for Possible Studies
64 Seymour street, W1H 5BW
Wednesday 28 July 2010, 7pm to 9pm
This event is free
The Free Cinema School presents a one off evening "study group" based around the seminal ideas and contemporary themes of the film Ici et ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere), directed by Jean Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville in 1976. In 1970, Godard, along with Jean-Pierre Gorin and the Dziga Vertov Group, was commissioned by Al Fatah, the militant Palestinian group, to shoot a documentary. When the film was approximately two-thirds complete, production was halted since many of the Palestinians they had been filming had been killed. Years after the disintegration of the Dziga Vertov Group, Godard and his new collaborator Anne-Marie Mieville, whom he would work with through the 1990s, re-edited this footage into a cinematic essay exploring the failure of the original to address the reality of the images it presents.
Over the last few weeks on Wednesday evenings, artists in residence Lamia Joreige, Rania Stephan, no.w.here, Khalid Abdulla, Cressida Trew and members from the local Edgware Road community have been coming together at the Centre of Possible Studies to discuss films as part of an ongoing conversation about independent film production/distribution and its relationship to place.
In this evening, excerpts of the 53 minute film Ici et ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere) will be played interspersed with collective discussion around the film’s agency and contemporary relevance, also drawing on some of the wider topics and possible studies ongoing at the Centre of Possible Studies.
An essay on the film can be found here.
This event is part of the
Edgware Road Project
Stills from Ici et ailleurs (1976)
Dir: Jean Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville
French with English subtitles
16mm & video on 16mm, 53 mins
Edgware Road is in collaboration with:
Ashkal Alwan: The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Beirut Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
