The Film That John Lennon Couldn't Make

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[edit] Synopsis

Yoko Ono wanted to film John Lennon getting it up, on the day of filming John couldn't; as a filmmaker I knew what I had to do.

Written, Directed, and Erected by Rupert Owen

[edit] About the filmmaker

RMIT Media Studies graduate and Masters of Creative Media, Rupert Owen's work tickles the fancies of the explicit, the intrusive, and the screwy.

[edit] Festivals

  • Dropfest (Railway Hotel, Melbourne),
  • Trasharamma Agogo Short Film Festival (Mercury Cinema, Adelaide. Revolver, Melbourne. Mu-Meson Archives, Sydney. The Zoo, Brisbane),
  • SHOOT (Channel 31, 1st Prize, Producer's Segment),
  • The Sick Puppy Film Festival (Feb 15th 2002, San Francisco, California),
  • Canberra International (Shorts) Film Festival (Screensound Australia, Canberra),
  • Film Forum (A Bar Called Barry, Melbourne Oct),
  • Screen Me! Blue Mountains Film Festival,
  • Sharp Shorts (NSW 2002).
  • RMIT Student Film and Video Festival (Melbourne, 2002)
  • Mini MUFF Melbourne Underground Film Festival (Melbourne 2002)
  • Plummet #5(Melbourne 2002)
  • Mikrokino Festival (Belgrade, Serbia 2003)
  • Melbourne Queer Film Festival (Melbourne 2003)
  • West Australian Screen Awards (2003)
  • Out Takes ¡V travelling New Zealand film festival, Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, Dunedin (2004)
  • Short crap Bare All Sessions @ Glitch Bar (Oct 2004)
  • One Minute Film Festival (Aarau Switzerland 2006)
  • One Take Film Festival (Zegrab, Croatia 2006)
  • Lexus ifawards 2001, 2002, and 2003

[edit] Awards

SHOOT (1st prize, Producers segment, Channel 31 Melbourne)

[edit] Filmmaker comments

"I did five takes, each time having to straddle cold lighting cases in order to retrieve shrinkage, masturbated twice, and once a festival not only returned the film but refunded the administrative fee; unheard of." - Rupert Owen

[edit] Online

Featured on Undergroundfilm.org, Berkeley, California.

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