The documentary that effectively launched Whitehead’s career, Wholly Communion captures the historic event at the Royal Albert Hall on 11 June 1965 where an audience of 7,000 witnessed the first meeting of American and English Beat poets. Among the performers featured are Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso and Adrian Mitchell.

One of the few film-makers trusted within the perfumed gardens of the 60s rock illuminati, Whitehead was allowed unparalleled access into the centre of the pop circle to capture the moment for his kaleidoscopic film. With contributions from the likes of Michael Caine, Julie Christie, Lee Marvin and David Hockney, Tonite presents a dazzling and intimate record from the very core of the “in-crowd.” With music by Pink Floyd, among many others. “Not a documentary in any ordinary sense,” said Variety, “but rather an impressionistic view of the ‘land of mod’ as seen by a sympathetic participant.”

Peter Brook directs the Royal Shakespeare Company in US, a semi-improvised work protesting England’s unseen and unacknowledged role in the Vietnam War. Containing sequences at public meetings and interviews with the actors (including Glenda Jackson) and Brook himself, the film is an agit-prop time capsule that has gone virtually unseen in this country since its premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1967. Wrote Variety of the film, “…for Americans interested in current theatrical trends it could be a must, since it’s their only current opportunity to see one of the most adventuresome and controversial stage productions of the last few years.”