E D I T

Yoko Ono

From ‘Six Film Scripts’

 MONA LISA & HER SMILE

Ask audience to stare
at a figure, (ANY FIGURE)
for a long time and then
immediately turn their
eyes to the screen and
see the reflection.

 FILM SCRIPT 3

Ask audience to cut
the part of the image
on the screen that
they don’t like.
Supply scissors.

 FILM SCRIPT 4

Ask audience to stare
at the screen until
it becomes black

 FILM SCRIPT 5

Ask audience the
following:
1)not to look at
Rock Hudson, but
only Doris Day
2)not to look at
any round objects
but only square
and angled objects –
if you look at a
round object watch
it until it becomes
square and angled
3)not to look at
blue but only red –
if blue comes out
close eyes or do
something so you
do not see, if you
saw it, then make
believe that you
have not seen it.

Self-published in Tokyo 1964; reissued c. 1968 as 14-page pamphlet.
Film Script 3, Film Script 5 reprinted in Grapefruit, Tokyo 1964, republished 1970 with intro by John Lennon.