New 'John & Yoko' film shows rare footage of The Beatles legend in Syracuse

A new documentary film about John Lennon and Yoko Ono features rare footage of The Beatles legend in Syracuse.

“One to One: John & Yoko” premiered earlier this month on HBO, focusing on the couple’s life in the early 1970s. Highlights include an intimate look at their life in a Greenwich Village apartment in New York, social activism amid the Vietnam War, and restored video of their “One to One” benefit concert at Madison Square Garden, Lennon’s only full-length show after leaving the Beatles.

But some of the never-before-seen material also includes scenes of Lennon and Ono at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y. The “unfinished” exhibition, Ono’s first solo museum show, opened on Oct. 8, 1971.

“It will be unfinished always because every piece in this exhibition is also growing because people add things to it," Ono says.

The doc shows the large crowd of more than 6,000 that gathered at the Everson for a glimpse of Lennon and Ono. At one point, the couple is seen having a private meal at a table in the lobby of the museum while fans look on from the balcony.

Fans can also see some of Ono’s exhibit, including a partially eaten apple starting to rot, a boy hammering a piece of metal, empty picture frames, and a girl who bumps into a wall inside a glass maze. Famed beat poet Allen Ginsberg even reads a poem (“...only U.S. honkies smear feces twixt their buttocks with clean paper...“) as a ”sculpture" by Ginsberg and Ono.

“One to One: John & Yoko,” directed by Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald, premiered Nov. 14 on HBO and is currently streaming on HBO Max. The scenes from Syracuse’s Everson Museum are shown between the 17:50 and 20:12 marks.

Source: Geoff Herbert/syracuse.com

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