Wholly Communion

Wholly Communion

33 mins | Dec. 31, 1965

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.

Wholly Communion

33 mins | Dec. 31, 1965

Wholly Communion
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.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers
Original title Wholly Communion
Directors Peter Whitehead
Writers

Cast

Gregory Corso

as Himself

Harry Fainlight

as Himself

Allen Ginsberg

as Himself

Michael Horovitz

as Himself

Ernst Jandl

as Himself

Christopher Logue

as Himself

Adrian Mitchell

as Himself

Alexander Trocchi

as Himself

Simon Vinkenoog

as Himself