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Peter Whitehead

Peter Whitehead

Born: January 8, 1937
Died: June 10, 2019
in Liverpool, England, UK
Peter Lorrimer Whitehead was an English writer, photographer and filmmaker who documented the counterculture in London and New York in the late 1960s. He is also known for his work as a director of promotional film clips (precursors to the modern music video) including a version of "Interstellar Overdrive" for Pink Floyd and several clips for The Rolling Stones.

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The Falconer
Title: The Falconer
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair's liminal, laminal tribute to underground filmmaker Peter Whitehead, featuring image manipulation by Dave Mckean & reminiscences from various countercultural characters. A fitting epitaph for an English margin walker.
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The Fall
Title: The Fall
Character: Himself / Narrator
Released: January 15, 1969
Type: Movie
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"The Fall" depicts certain scenes in New York City between October 1967 and March 1968, shot by the independent filmmaker, Peter Whitehead. It is a very personal documentary, and Whitehead appears in a large number of scenes, and we hear his lengthy ruminations on the state of the United States and the war in Vietnam.
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Nothing To Do With Me
Title: Nothing To Do With Me
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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A film portrait of Peter Whitehead that takes the form of an interview without questions - an experiment with Being and Time.
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