{"id":111,"date":"2011-10-20T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=111"},"modified":"2011-10-04T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T16:40:08","slug":"erection-by-john-lennon-yoko-ono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"‘Erection’ by John Lennon & Yoko Ono"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erection John Lennon<\/a>
\nErection<\/em> (1971, 180MB, 18:06 min.)<\/a><\/p>\n

A nineteen-minute film by John and Yoko, which was made in London during
\n1970 and 1971. When John had heard that the London International Hotel was
\nto be built in Kensington, he sought permission to film its entire construction.
\nOnce he’d obtained it he contacted the photographer Iain MacMillan<\/a> and asked
\nhim to take a series of photographs of the construction. MacMillan had a stills
\ncamera and filmed the erection of the hotel from a fixed position for a period
\nof eighteen months.
\nThe stills were presented in sequence in the film, which ended with a shot of the
\ncompleted hotel where all the lights were then turned off, leaving a black screen.
\nOn the soundtrack Yoko sang two songs, ‘Airmale’ and ‘You’, using tapes of recordings
\nof Joe Jones<\/a> Tone Deaf Music Co., which was, in fact, a number of toy percussion
\ninstruments that played themselves, a squeaky style of sound devised by a former
\nassociate of Yoke’s Fluxus days, Joe Jones. The hotel was situated at 147 Cromwell
\nRoad and later became the London Swallow Hotel.
\n