Screening & Talk | One to One: John & Yoko
November 18, 20256:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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About the Event
Watch never-before-seen footage that follows the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1970s New York City, including their only complete concert. A conversation with Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald moderated by Rebecca Fons—Head of Cinema at the Barbican, London, and former Director of Programming at the Gene Siskel Film Center—follows the film.
Access Information
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About the Speakers
Kevin Macdonald is an Oscar-winning feature and documentary film director. His films include One Day in September, a documentary about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes, which won him the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature; the climbing documentary Touching the Void; the historical drama The Last King of Scotland, which won Forest Whitaker the Academy Award for Best Actor; and acclaimed documentaries on artists Whitney Houston and Bob Marley.
Rebecca Fons is film curator, arts administrator, and educator, and serves as the Head of Cinema at the Barbican Centre in London. She most recently served as Director of Programming at the Gene Siskel Film Center, a public program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and serves as the Programming Director for the historic Iowa Theater in her hometown of Winterset, IA. Fons previously served as Programming Director for FilmScene in Iowa City, IA; and as Education Director for The Chicago International Film Festival. She is cofounder of the event series Destroy Your Art, and in 2022 was named Chicagoan of the Year in Film by The Chicago Tribune. Fons holds an MA from Columbia College Chicago.
Related Exhibition
October 18, 2025 - February 22, 2026
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind
Funding
Event
Lead support for the 2025–26 season of MCA Talks is made possible by The Richard and Mary L. Gray Lecture Series through a generous gift to the Chicago Contemporary Campaign.
Generous support is provided by The Antje B. and John J. Jelinek Endowed Lecture and Symposium on Contemporary Art; the Kristina Barr Lectures, which were established through a generous gift by The Barr Fund to the Chicago Contemporary Campaign; The Gloria Brackstone Solow and Eugene A. Solow, MD, Memorial Lecture Series; and the Allen M. Turner Tribute Fund, honoring his past leadership as Chair of the Board of Trustees.
Exhibition
Lead support for Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind is provided by the Harris Family Foundation in memory of Bette and Neison Harris, the Zell Family Foundation, Cari and Michael Sacks, Karyn and Bill Silverstein, and R. H. Defares.
Major support is provided by Bank of America; Barbara Bluhm-Kaul and Don Kaul; Christie’s; Nancy and Steven Crown; Laura and Tony Davis and Linden Capital Partners; Susie L. Karkomi and Marvin Leavitt, Karkomi Family Fund; Liz and Eric Lefkofsky; Lugano; H. Gael Neeson, Edlis Neeson Foundation; D. Elizabeth Price; Carol Prins and John Hart/The Jessica Fund; Robin Loewenberg Tebbe and Mark Tebbe; Lynn and Allen Turner; Charlotte R. Cramer Wagner and Herbert S. Wagner III of Wagner Foundation; and the Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation.
Generous support is provided by The Francis L. Lederer Foundation.
This exhibition is supported by the MCA’s Women Artists Initiative, a philanthropic commitment to further equity across gender lines and promote the work and ideas of women artists.
