Fly (1970 film)

This article is about the 1970 film. For other uses, see Fly (disambiguation).
Fly
Directed byJohn Lennon
Yoko Ono
StarringVirginia Lust
Edited byJohn Lennon
Yoko Ono
Dan Richter
Jon Bloom
Daniel Seymour
Marc Stone
Nancy Kallile
Andy Burke
Bill Holderith
Music byJohn Lennon
Yoko Ono
Release date
  • 1970 (1970)
Running time
25 minutes

Fly is a 1970 avant-garde short film directed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.[1] Filmed a year prior to the release of Ono's 1971 album of the same name,[2] 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.[3]

  1. ^ "Fly". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
  2. ^ McKinzie, Matt (22 April 2020). "Defragmenting Bodies: Yoko Ono's 'Fly' at 50". PopMatters. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  3. ^ 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.