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Peter Whitehead
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Between
1965 and 1969 Whitehead made five movies, beginning with the documentary
that effectively launched his film career : Wholly Communion,
about an historic countercultural event in the Royal Albert Hall on June
11 1965 where an audience of 7,000 witnessed the first meeting of
![]() It was on the basis of this film that Whitehead was approached by the then manager of the Rolling Stones, Andrew Oldham, to film the group on tour in Dublin and Belfast. Charlie is my Darling was the outcome. And it was the subsequent promo films he made for the Stones that mark the real birth of the "music video". Whitehead himself considers The Fall to be his most important film. This is a two-hour documentary shot behind the barricades, inside Columbia University during the 1968 student rebellion, which took place in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King. In the late 1970s Whitehead gave up film-making. He took up falconry. He has also written several works of fiction. Forty years after the release of Wholly Communion, Whitehead still remains a significant cultural icon. WHOLLY COMMUNION (1965)
Cinema-verite documentary of the first meeting of American and English
Beat poets: Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Corso, Adrian Mitchell. Albert Hall,
June 11, 1965. 33 minutes. CHARLIE IS MY DARLING (1965)
The Rolling Stones on their first tour of Ireland, 1965. 60 minutes. BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT (1966, Colour)
An analysis of Peter Brook's anti-Vietnam war play, "U.S". With
Glenda Jackson. 60 minutes. PINK FLOYD, LONDON 1966-7 (1967, Colour)
Footage
of Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett performing live and in studio. 30 minutes.
TONITE LET'S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON (1967, Colour)
Described as a "rock concerto for film", this is Whitehead's
take on swinging London in the 1960s. Music by Pink Floyd and others.
Julie Christie, Michael Caine, David Hockney. 70 minutes. THE FALL (1969, Colour)
The aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King, the great Pentagon
protest march, the occupation of Columbia University. 110 minutes. DADDY (1974, Colour)
With Nikki de St Phalle. Unveils the destructive, perverse and everlasting
influence of a father upon his daughter, alternately gothic and surreal.
90 minutes. FIRE IN THE WATER (1977, Colour) With Natalie Delon, The Animals, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, David Hockney, John Lennon. A film -maker reviews his brief movie career in the highlands of Scotland while his girlfriend explores the countryside alone. An alchemical allegory. 90 minutes.
There is also footage of other 1960s luminaries such as Marianne Faithfull, Keith Richards, Gloria Steinem, Edna O'Brien, The Small Faces, The Animals, David Bailey, The Beach Boys, and the man who started Radio Caroline, Ronan O'Reilly, and Mike Oldfield. If you don’t find what you are looking for, please contact us and we will do our best to help you. |
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