Josh Raskin - I Met The Walrus

As part of the Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption exhibition we collaborated with Onedotzero to bring together a compilation of moving image work including animations and archive material, which explore politics through comic-style work.

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. 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.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Raskin
• Met
• The
• Walrus
• Animation
• Film
• John
• Lennon
• Beatles
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• Alt
• Shift

[dostephen]

What a moving, sweet and evocative work of art this is. Fourteen year old Josh Raskin's interview with John Lennon is basically a treatise on whom to trust and rely upon on life's treacherous journey in times of war, the meaning of music and art in one's culture and working for peace by working on your self. The animations are flowing, evocative and perfectly synchronized to the conversation. In total this short video is a brilliant and genuine diamond in a sea of rhinestones.