Lennon’s lost interview
A few years back, one of the first audio pieces I heard through the internet was this 1970 interview of John Lennon for Rolling Stones.
I remember being really impressed by Lennon’s voice, violent, almost hysterical, when talking about Duchamp, for example (in part V), or about his childhood, screaming, “why didn’t they see I was a fucking genius”…
Now, another piece of history emerged from the past, this time with a magnifiscent animation. A student asked him for an interview and he talks about peace. No wonder they had to kill him.
It’s like we were in the room with Lennon speaking. I love the internet just for this kind of things.
I Met The Walrus.
Here is the youtube presentation :
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon’s every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit, and timeless message.
via IloveNewWork.
