Fly

Fly (1970)

The camera follows a fly as it walks about the body of a nude woman. Shot in extreme closeup and accompanied by Ono's eponymous song, the film sets out to celebrate the human body.

Date of release
1970-12-31
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (11)
Runtime
25m
Director
Yoko Ono, John Lennon

Casting

Interesting facts

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, 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.

Production

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."

The film's soundtrack was conceived in the Regency Hotel in New York on Christmas day in 1970. 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.

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

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