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Wholly Communion (1965)
Directed by Peter Whitehead
Overview
A short film documenting what was referred to as “The International Poetry Incarnation”. It was billed as Great Britain’s first full-scale “happening”, with the world’s leading Beat poets together under one roof at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965, for an evening of near-hallucinatory revelry. It came to be seen as one of the cultural high points of the Swinging Sixties.
Length 33 minutes
Actors
Gregory Corso | Harry Fainlight | Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Allen Ginsberg | Michael Horovitz | Ernst Jandl | Christopher Logue | Adrian Mitchell | Alexander Trocchi | Simon Vinkenoog