Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 2:00 PM to Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Filmforum presents films by Yoko Ono. In conjunction with The Broad’s exhibition *Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind*, Filmforum presents some films of hers not included in the exhibition, along with a few others that are. Full info: www.lafilmforum.org ∆ The films of Yoko Ono demand that one slows down to view them. They might be humorous or rarified, reserved or unruly, precise or uncontrolled. Plot is not important; the idea behind them is, and calls for absorption in the space and time to look closer, perhaps to meditate or to dream. While a few of these are installed in the exhibition at The Broad and others are not, the opportunity to sit with them in full in a darkened room allows the possibility of a full appreciation. “All Ono’s films are fundamentally conceptual, and are characterized by the same concerns that underpin her work in other media: the body, duration, ephemerality, seriality, measurement, language, an active engagement of the viewer as participant, a performative structure, attention to the properties of the material, and a break with the autonomous work of art. Many of these tenets later characterized both Conceptual Art and structural film for which Fluxus film is now acknowledged as an important precursor. In 1961, the Fluxus artist Henry Flynt wrote a definitive essay, “Concept Art,” in which he gave the first definition of Conceptual Art; terming it ‘concept art’ and ‘structure art,’ he linked it to the principles of experimental music being established by composers uch as La Monte Young, with whom Ono was presenting concerts in her Chambers Street loft the year Flynt’s text was written” – Chrissie Iles, “Erotic Conceptualism: The Films of Yoko Ono,” in Yes Yoko Ono (Japan Society & Harry N. Abrams, 2000), p. 202. *Special Thanks to Ed Patuto, The Broad, Connor Monahan, Yoko Ono’s Studio*