Fly_(film)

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Fly (film)

1970 film by John Lennon and Yoko Ono

This article is about the 1970 film. For other uses, see Fly (disambiguation).

Fly is a 1970 avant-garde short film directed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Filmed a year prior to the release of Ono's 1971 album of the same name,[1] the short depicts a housefly crawling around on the body of a nude woman, actress Virginia Lust. By the end of the film, multiple flies can be seen on Lust's body. The film's visuals are accompanied by "Fly", a composition by Lennon and Ono that would later appear on Ono's album of the same name.[2]

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Production

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Fly was conceived as a two-sentence premise initially titled Film No. 11: "About a fly going from the toe to head of a lying naked body, crawling very slowly. The whole film should take about an hour."[4]

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack was conceived in the Regency Hotel in New York on Christmas day in 1970.[4] Lennon recorded the soundtrack on a multitrack Nagra audio recorder in three parts. The first "movement" features vocal improvisations by Ono, and the second features those vocals played back on the recorder while Lennon performs on a guitar.[4] The third part of the soundtrack was recorded as follows: Lennon played guitar against the reversed playback of the second section of the soundtrack; this recording was then reversed (described by scholar Melissa Ragona as "a kind of double negative"),[5] and played alongside another vocal solo by Ono.[5] When the doubly-reversed recording finished, Ono continued performing vocally, and Lennon played a live radio.[5]

The soundtrack would later be released as a track titled "Fly", appearing on Ono's 1971 album of the same name.[6]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    McKinzie, Matt (22 April 2020). "Defragmenting Bodies: Yoko Ono's 'Fly' at 50". PopMatters. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  2. [2]
    Volmers, Eric (16 September 2020). "Unfinished and interactive: Contemporary Calgary's new exhibit on the life and art of Yoko Ono". Calgary Herald. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  3. [3]
    "The Lowry".
  4. [4]
    Vernallis, Herzog & Richardson 2013, p. 160.
  5. [5]
    Vernallis, Herzog & Richardson 2013, p. 161.
  6. [6]
    Vernallis, Herzog & Richardson 2013, p. 162.

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