In 1969, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin were commissioned by the League of Arab States to create a film portraying the struggle for Palestinian liberation. However, months after completing filming, Jordan's armed forces attacked the Palestinian resistance base, massacring thousands of Palestinian people, including innocents. With weakened spirits, Godard and Gorin questioned the nature of the images they had taken and decided to abandon the project. Godard returned to the material in 1974 with his new collaborator Anne-Marie Miéville, with whom he discovered that the translations of the words spoken by the Palestinian fighters that were originally given to them had been politically distorted. Godard and Miéville used the recordings from the initial film and conducted an analysis in which they deconstructed the production of the political image, questioning their own partisanship through the juxtaposition of French society and the life of the Palestinian people at war: the here and elsewhere.