
SUMMER OF LOVE: REVISITED at The Royal Albert Hall
The iconic venue is holding a season of performances, screening, talks and events called Summer of Love: Revisited, marking 50 years since the 1967 apex of the ‘hippie’ movement. A key part of the season will be four special events in the Hall’s Elgar Room celebrating the work of subversive filmmaker Peter Whitehead, who made some of the most vivid, intoxicating and important music documentaries of the period. Mon 1 May, 8pm Tonite Let's All Make Love in London + Post Film Di

Tonite Let’s All Make Love in Leicester: Peter Whitehead and the Long 1960s’
To celebrate the donation of the Peter Whitehead Archive to De Montfort University and the 50th anniversary of the flowering of the counterculture, the Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre is holding an interdisciplinary conference with film screenings on the 3rd - 4th March 2017 in Leicester (DMU and Phoenix Cinema). The conference opens at 2.00pm on Friday 3 March and closes at 7.00pm on Sat 4 March. ‘Peter Whitehead is a really special film-maker… He really

THE FALL Screenplay & Dossier Release
The Fall - The Film: "Considered by Whitehead to be his most important film, The Fall is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking, an extremely personal statement on violence, revolution and the turbulence within late sixties America. Filmed entirely in and around New York between October 1967 and June 1968, it features Robert Kennedy, The Bread and Puppet Theater, Paul Auster (fresh-faced as a Columbia student), Tom Hayden, Mark Rudd, Stokely Carmichael... ...Richard Roud, co-di

Fool that i am... Trilogy Release
Fool that i am... Trilogy. Published back in 2014 and is finally here on the shelves. However, for now - only Book 1- An inadvertant Romance, the introduction to the five lives of Peter Whitehead, starting when he first studied science in Cambridge. Available in paperback for 9.99. Book 2 / Book 3 releases TBC #peterwhitehead #autobiography #foolthatiam #hatgorpublishing #bookrelease #london #thelifeof #nohzone

THE PETER WHITEHEAD ARCHIVE
Beyond the Borders of Dissonance: Launching the Peter Whitehead Archive De Montfort University, Tuesday the 21st of June, Clephan 3.03, 14.40 – 18.45pm The Peter Whitehead Archive is to be housed in a specially-converted area of DMU’s Clephan building and will be available for scholarship by researchers in DMU and the wider community of academics, artists and other practitioners. As we approach the 50th anniversary of the cultural turbulence of the late 1960s, the Archive wil

Nicole Brenez and Peter Whitehead on Jean-Luc Godard as Experimental Filmmaker. BFI London.
Leading French film theorist and curator Nicole Brenez is joined by celebrated British filmmaker Peter Whitehead for a discussion of Godard’s work from the 1970s onwards. BFI London - TRT 90min Jean-Luc Godard’s creative trajectory is characterised by increasing formal and structural experimentation, yet he’s rarely considered an ‘experimental filmmaker.’ In this talk, leading film theorist and curator Nicole Brenez and Independant Film maker Peter Whitehead will consider his

FILM / EDUCATION
De Montfort University - Leicester Media School and Faculty of Technology are enrolling a Graduate Full Bursary PhD Scholarship :- Behind the Eye on the 1960s: An exploration of the Peter Whitehead Archive Open to students worldwide For more info visit: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/ #peterwhitehead #demontforduniversity #film #education #peterwhiteheadarchive #filmarchives

THE FALL - New York Theatre
FILM / THEATRE SISTER SYLVESTER They Are Gone But Here Must I Remain. STARTS Thursday 3 September - ENDS 19 September 2015 - NEW YORK They Are Gone But Here Must I Remain is an original multi-disciplinary performance by Sister Sylvester. Based on firsthand interviews and research, it charts the story of a film that caused a revolution. Using Peter Whitehead’s 1969 cult film, The Fall, and its rumored influence on international political activism in the 1970s, it combines firs

TONITE LETS ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON at the BFI LONDON.
FILM AT THE BFI SOUTHBANK Tonite Lets All Make Love in London 'Peter Whitehead's psychedelic snapshot of the 60s features Mick Jagger, Michael Caine, Julie Christie and more.' BFI Monday 10 August 2015 20:30 - NFT1 Saturday 15 August 2015 20:20 - NFT3 #peterwhitehead #bfi #southbank #toniteletsallmakeloveinlondon #60scultfilms #counterculture #documentaryfilm #swingingsixties #mickjagger #michaelcaine #independantfilm #bfilondon #popculture #vintagefilms

CROSSWORDS - RELEASE
he eagerly awaited CROSSWORDS - All Out War Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Peter Whitehead has been released in 1st Edition Paper back. #peterwhitehead #book #novel #counterculture #crosswords #crimefiction #britishauthors

WHOLLY COMMUNION @ The International Poetry - Reincarnation, part of 'The Last Word' Festiva
The rare screening of Peter Whitehead’s seminal film of the 1965 First International Poetry Incarnation, Wholly Communion, featuring Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Harry Fainlight, Ernst Jandl, Gregory Corso, Michael Horovitz, Adrian Mitchell and many more. The film screening was accompanied by a discussion on whether history has ever been altered by words, and what influence words might have on the course of the future. Roundhouse London 30th May 2015. #peterwhitehea