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 about peace.

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.

Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite

with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina,

resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit, and timeless message.