Sunday, July 12, 2026 at 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Yoko Ono’s film *“RAPE”* with a talk by Jennifer Doyle. In conjunction with The Broad’s exhibition *Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind*, Filmforum presents her rarely screened film “RAPE” followed by a talk on the film by writer and educator Jennifer Doyle. The film is not included in the exhibition, so this is your only chance to see it currently. *Note that there is no sex or nudity or conventional physical violence in the film.* ∆ Yoko Ono’s score for *Film No. 5 RAPE (or CHASE) (1968)* begins with the instruction: “A cameraman will chase a girl on a street with a camera persistently until he corners her in an alley, and, if possible, until she is in a falling position.’ “In one sense, Rape is a particularly brutal dramatization of the Warholian discovery that the camera‘s implacable stare disrupts ‘ordinary’ behavior to enforce its own regime. In another, the film is a graphic metaphor for the ruthless surveillance that can theoretically attach itself to any citizen of the modern world.” – J. Hoberman, “John Lennon/Yoko Ono. *Film No 5. RAPE (or CHASE) (Clip)*”, in *Rhetoric of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother*, Thomas Y. Levin, Ursula Frohne, Peter Weibel (eds), ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 2002, p. 406f. Jennifer Doyle is a writer, curator, and scholar. She has published books about harassment dynamics (*Shadow of My Shadow*, 2024) and difficulty in contemporary art (*Hold It Against Me*, 2013). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at UC Riverside. Special Thanks to Ed Patuto, The Broad, Connor Monahan, Yoko Ono’s studio.