John Lennon October 1971

Title: Freetime
Type: TV Special
Filming Location: WNET Studios, New York City, New York
Filming Date: October 14th 1971
Broadcast Date: June 2026
Country Of Broadcast: USA
Duration: 1:04:05 Minutes
Quality: B-
Notes: Yoko Ono takes over public television show Free Time for a strange and riveting hour to bring her
experimental art and performance pieces to a live studio audience. This is Yoko on her own terms not as the wife
of Beatle John Lennon, but as a conceptual artist, filmmaker, and philosopher who had been pushing art's boundaries since the early 1960s.

Jonas Mekas, an avant-garde filmmaker in New York City, joins Ono and John Lennon for a Q&A and a wide-ranging
conversation about the subconscious. We see several of Ono's experimental films including "No. 4" (also known as
"Bottoms"), "Up Your Legs Forever," and "Fly," interstitial excerpts inspired by Yoko`s conceptual book
"Grapefruit" specifically material connected to "Of a Grapefruit in the World of Park." Yoko explains why she
believes "total communication" is the only path to total peace in the world and invites the audience to
participate in her unfinished art installations.