Yoko Ono filmed 367 naked butts in 1967 and called it cinema. She was right.
The feature length version of Bottoms by Yoko Ono
Direction
Ono's deadpan conceptual rigor makes 80 minutes of butts feel deliberate.
Editing
Rhythmic montage turns flesh into abstract geography.
Director
Yoko Ono
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ono premiered this at the Sogetsu Art Center in Tokyo, scandalizing audiences who expected traditional filmmaking. It cemented her as the ultimate art-world provocateur before she ever met a Beatle.
The 367 participants were reportedly mostly art students and friends recruited through flyers—making this possibly cinema's most democratic casting call.
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