DOC NYC Selects Winter 2025 Season
Date: Tuesday, March 11
Time: 7:00pm ET
Venue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYC
TRT: 100 minutes
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Producers: Peter Worsley, Kevin Macdonald, Alice Webb
Who speaks – or sings – for America? In 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono had adopted New York City as their new hometown and were busy absorbing the wildly contradictory mores of a fracturing American society, when Lennon gave the only full-length show he would ever play after the breakup of The Beatles – the One to One benefit concert at Madison Square Gardens.
What becomes clear while watching the footage of that electrifying performance, and the careful way that Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald has constructed a feel for the day-to-day life of John and Yoko in that moment of their lives, is how crucial it is to provide alternative images to the reactionary forces threatening to stifle the beauty of the diverse American cultural kaleidoscope. One to One: John & Yoko, which debuted at last year’s Venice Film Festival, is absolutely a seminal film for 2025. Then, as now, voices must rise and be clear – for we all shine on, like the superstars we are.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with editor/co-director Sam Rice-Edwards.