No. 4 1966
This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace.
This film consists entirely of close ups of famous persons' bottoms. Ono meant it to encourage a dialogue for world peace.
Shot at 2,000 frames per second, this short shows a man exhaling smoke in incredibly slow motion.
A smile gradually fades into a neutral facial expression.
A 16 mm film, featuring Yoko Ono's own eye slowly blinking, shot by Peter Moore with a high-speed camera at 2,000 frames per second, which is projected at normal speed, 24 frames per second, thus creating a slow-motion effect.
Tips of feet walking at the edge of frame, all around the frame.
Color test strip from developing tank.
Artype patterns, intended for loops. Benday dot patterns. Dots, lines. Screens, wavy lines, parallel lines, etc. on clear film. No camera.
A handful of rocks and chestnuts falling, filmed with high speed camera.
In an endless loop, unexposed film runs through the projector. The resulting projected image shows a surface illuminated by a bright light, occasionally altered by the appearance of scratches and dust particles in the surface of the damaged film material. This a film which depicts only its own material qualities; An "anti-film", meant to encourage viewers to focus on the lack of concrete images.
Flicker: White and black alternating frames.
Prestype on clear film measuring tape, 10ft. length. No camera. At the end of every foot of film numbers appear, 1, 2, etc to 10
Single frame exposures, color. Different image each frame, various items in the room, etc.
Seeing, Hearing, Saying Nothing. Ben stands with ears, eyes, mouth bandaged.
"Single Frame sequences of TV or film images, with periodic distortions of the image. The images are airplanes, women men interspersed with pictures of texts like: 'silence, genius at work' and 'ich liebe dich.' The end credit is 'Television décollage, Cologne, 1963."
Word & number gag, no camera.
Single frame exposures of dot-screens.
Begins with a shot of a demarcation line on an asphalt tennis court. A hand points to the distant landscape, then numbers 408 and 409 appear on a female torso.
Each film frame is a different image from the Sears Roebuck mail order catalogue. The film places pictures of the objects sold by Sears to the consumer society side by side with pictures of female models
X-ray sequence of mouth and throat; eating, salivating, speaking.