The third part of the soundtrack was recorded as follows: Lennon played guitar against the reversed playback of the second section of the soundtrack this recording was then reversed (described by scholar Melissa Ragona as "a kind of double negative"), and played alongside another vocal solo by Ono. The first "movement" features vocal improvisations by Ono, and the second features those vocals played back on the recorder while Lennon performs on a guitar. Lennon recorded the soundtrack on a multitrack Nagra audio recorder in three parts. The film's soundtrack was conceived in the Regency Hotel in New York on Christmas day in 1970. The whole film should take about an hour." Soundtrack 11: "About a fly going from the toe to head of a lying naked body, crawling very slowly. Production External imageįly was conceived as a two-sentence premise initially titled Film No. 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. By the end of the film, multiple flies can be seen on Lust's body. Filmed a year prior to the release of Ono's 1971 album of the same name, the short depicts a housefly crawling around on the body of a nude woman, actress Virginia Lust. Fly is a 1970 avant-garde short film directed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
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