Sean Ono Lennon calls the brand new documentary film ‘One to One: John Yoko’ “a window via which you’ll view the lives of my dad and mom”.
The movie has been directed by Kevin McDonald and options footage from the 2 ‘One to One’ profit live shows that John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Elephant’s Reminiscence carried out at Madison Sq. Backyard in August 1972.
These live shows have been the one full reside reveals Lennon ever did between the breakup of the Beatles and his demise in 1980 however Sean insists that the documentary is about greater than music, calling it “multi-layered [with] macro and micro narratives”.
He advised Selection: “Actually, I believe Kevin is an incredible director and clearly he’s made many nice movies, so he is aware of what he’s doing. And his angle on this story is one thing that I couldn’t have imagined, I assume. As a result of I most likely would’ve imagined … some individuals is perhaps imagining, that it will simply be a live performance movie. However actually the live performance is a window via which you’ll view the lives of my dad and mom at the moment, transferring to New York from the U.Okay., after which via their eyes, you view the larger political and cultural panorama of the early ‘70s. So, like several nice movie needs to be, it’s very multi-layered and has macro and micro narratives which might be all equally compelling in several methods.”
Sean known as his dad and mom the “first actuality TV couple” due to how they documented and recorded a lot of their non-public lives.
He stated: “I believe it’s actually attention-grabbing that John and Yoko famously recorded their lives on a regular basis by way of video — I imply, by way of 16 millimeter movie. You understand, they have been documenting their lives every day once they have been dwelling at Tittenhurst in England [where they lived 1969-71]. After which once they acquired to New York, they have been recording all of their very own telephone calls, as a result of the FBI had been monitoring them and arguably harassing them, and Nixon was attempting to deport my dad from the nation.
“And simply additionally the truth that they have been doing that within the early ‘70s, earlier than actuality tv and earlier than social media and earlier than memes — they have been already type of forward of their time in that regard. So far as I’m involved, it’s like they have been the primary actuality TV celeb couple. And in addition they have been the primary to type of use memes to unfold their very own concepts with, for instance, “Give peace an opportunity” or “Battle is over if you’d like it” or “Hair Peace” or no matter their slogans have been; they’re arguably type of mimetic campaigns for social points. So it’s fascinating to see how they have been ready to make use of the expertise to doc and file their non-public lives whereas additionally form of utilizing that stage of intimacy to create media that was vital to them — which means that they needed to point out who they have been and the reality of who they have been, and so they needed individuals to see them unmanicured and unfiltered. And I really feel like nobody was actually doing that on the time.”
