Searching for Yoko Ono Story

[blacksquirrel]

Has anyone heard the following story, and/or does anyone know where I could get a citation for it or which film it references?

In one of her (performance art) films a cameraman follows a random woman on the street. At first she is surprised, then laughs it off, then she becomes increasingly agitated until finally she flees to her hotel room where the cameraman forces his way inside. She screams and throws things, but never directly at the man. After receiving comments during a screening that the woman should have physically attacked the cameraman if she felt threatened, and especially after he forced his way into her room, Ono responded that as a woman if you attack a man, you'd better kill him.

Ring any bells?

Comments

[sylvanwitch]

I don't know about the story, but the film is called "Rape." Here's what I found when I searched:

"OH YOKO—Four Films by Yoko Ono
One of the most misunderstood and controversial artists working today, Yoko Ono is finally being recognized by the mainstream for her influential minimalist and conceptual body of multidisciplinary work. Already an established artist in the early 1960s gallery scene and the Fluxus movement, Ono turned her attention to film and made sixteen films between 1964 and 1972. These two nights focus on some of her early conceptual film work, including The Museum of Modern Art Show, in which a group of people (including Bob Dylan and Jack Nicholson) arrive at an imaginary Ono exhibition at MoMA only to find that they are the actual art piece as they are filmed by John Lennon. No. 4 (Bottoms) is a film of continuous close-up shots of 365 naked bottoms walking on a treadmill accompanied by a soundtrack of interviews with the bottoms¹ counterparts; Ono stated her aim was to encourage dialogues on peace. Erection is a time-lapsed series of stills documenting the construction of a hotel in London over eighteen months. Rape, a mini-feature collaboration with Lennon, provokes questions of privacy and voyeurism as a London film crew follows a woman against her wishes throughout the city and into her apartment.

November 2
No. 4 Bottoms [1966, 16mm, b&w, sound, 80 min]
The Museum of Modern Art Show [1971, 16mm, color, sound, 7 min]


November 3
Erection with John Lennon [1971, 16mm, color, sound, 20 min]
Rape with John Lennon [1969, 16mm, color, sound, 77 min]"

Here's where I found it: http://www.cinemaproject.org/fall04.html

I don't know if that helps at all, but maybe someone at the site might know where you could get the info? Seems a long-shot, but I know how tiring tracking down these little bits of info. can be.

Good luck!

[blacksquirrel.livejournal.com]

Wow - thank you sooo much - knowing the actual name of the film hels *tons*

Will reply to your e-mail shortly. For now, must find coffee.

[blacksquirrel.livejournal.com]

Oh dear - see, that should have been helps, not "hels" - that's what happens when I post early in the morning.