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[ecrea] CFP - Tonite Let¹s All Make Love in Leicester: Peter Whitehead and the Long 1960s Conference, 3rd-4th March 2017

Tue Dec 20 03:59:45 GMT 2016






With apologies for cross-posting, please see the below CfP, which may be of interest to colleagues:


To celebrate the donation of the Peter Whitehead Archive to De Montfort University and the 50^th 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 3^rd - 4^th March 2017 in Leicester.**

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‘Peter Whitehead is a really special film-maker… He really chronicled that period in London in the ‘60s, the supposedly swinging London of that time’, that is the verdict of Martin Scorsese in the catalogue for this year’s The Rolling Stones retrospective at the Saachi Gallery. Whitehead (b. 1937) is one of the most innovative documentarists of the 1960s. A scientist turned film-maker, artist, novelist, falconer and mystic, Whitehead captured the meeting of avant-garde and pop culture that produced the sixties counterculture. He virtually invented the pop promo video and the ‘gonzo’ style of documentary. He filmed The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, David Hockney, Julie Christie, Michael Caine, Allen Ginsberg and Peter Brook’s /US /(1966), and collaborated with Niki de Saint Phalle and Penny Slinger.


The conference will feature an introduction to, and tour of, the Peter Whitehead Archive; a 50^th Anniversary screening of Whitehead’s iconic documentary, /Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London /(1967), including previously unseen outtakes and video interview with the director; a screening of Richard Kovitch’s important new documentary, /Penny Slinger: Out of the Shadows/. Confirmed speakers include:


- Professor Justin Smith (Portsmouth)

- feminist artist, Penny Slinger, whose rich 1960s/70s work encompassed a striking range of practices and provocative subject matter

- counter-cultural figure, Jenny Spires, influential on the making of /Tonite/, former partner of Pink Floyd’s Syd Barratt, and now a key instigator in the current Barrett celebratory events and his archive

Papers, performances, video essays and films on Whitehead’s work, as well as the wider cultural and political context are welcomed. Proposals are invited on topics addressing, but not limited to:

  *   Counterculture and the 1960s: political, spiritual, life style
  * Transgressive cinema and art of the period
  * Exploration of sex / gender / the body in art of the period
  * Documentation of theatre, performance and artistic practices / film
    as embedded in other artistic practices
  * Ideology of documentary
  * Documentary style – Whitehead and the evolution of the documentary film
  * Whitehead and the nouvelle vague
  * Whitehead’s photographic eye
  * Whitehead and pop culture
  * Whitehead and Feminism
  * Whitehead’s artistic collaborations
  * Influences on Whitehead
  * Whitehead’s legacy
  * Whitehead and ‘Swinging’ London
  * Whitehead, protest, revolution, war
  * Whitehead as insider / outsider
  * Whitehead, science and mysticism
  * Whitehead and Egyptology
  * Whitehead’s relationship with place, space, time
  * The long 1960s in Whitehead’s novels
  * Whitehead and the word/ image
  * Bird imagery and presence in Whitehead’s work and collaborations

Proposals of 250 words (including the title and format of the presentation), a brief biographical statement of no more than 100 words and a list of resources / technical needs should be sent to Alissa Clarke ((a.clarke /at/ dmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(a.clarke /at/ dmu.ac.uk)>) by the 19^th of January 2017.

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