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The blog of author Dennis Cooper

“His saliva tastes like unsweetened tea.”

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a-_-a, 21
I am a slave to my master. I have been serving him for two years. I do housework and worship his penis and ass and feet. Now my master wants to have anal sex with me, and I don’t want to. He has given me a week to have sex with him or leave. What should I do?

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SadMan – Jan 26, 2026
death penalty is the solution

a-_-a (Owner) – Jan 26, 2026
Sorry about my user name, I was drunk when I made it.

eggplanter – Jan 22, 2026
You have to do it.

a-_-a (Owner) – Jan 21, 2026
Master has recently punched me in the face for the first time. I like this. Very painfull. Very humiliating.

MrRRRRRRRRRR – Jan 19, 2026
i mean absolutely no disrespect to you a-_-a, but a true sub/slave uses the small ‘i” when referring to yourself and uses capital letters when referring to his Master…i.e. Master, His, Him, etc…just a lesson i’ve learned, sometimes the hard way.

 

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aboywhoislooking, 18
A long shot but I’m looking for a certain guy from Chromatica Ball Metlife by the piano stage. He had a yellow shirt underneath his white with pink lettering concert tee. Sunflower blonde hair. If you think this was you I want to be tied gagged and fucked HARD by and he knows who he is.

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jeand58 – Jan 14, 2026
Certificate of Registration
690-673-831
This certificate certifies that on the 22nd day of December 2025
Julian was issued slave registration number 640-688-860
and identifies as a Pig.

On the 24th day of December 2025 it was further declared that
690-673-831 has been owned by jeand58
since the 22nd day of December 2025.


 

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LukeSkywalk, 22
always make the wrong decisions, always. Choice means a struggle for me, some times intensely. It is everywhere, looming, from what to wear to how to act, do I accept what I think I am or pretend I am something beter, worse when you know you are ‘less than’, weaker, vulnerable to, those who you desire you and are attracted to you most.

i am attracted to women and mainly aroused at the thought of being totally under a man’s control while i fuck a woman and being forced to fuck her as a man wishes.

i have a little exp. of sexual contact with a man, just getting my cock sucked and ass licked. so i am nervous but know this is my role in life.

update Dec 23-2025 virginity taken repeatedly over 10 days. so nice to see a man satisfied and happy and finally shown my sexual use (mentioned the fact i came when being fucked as it has put a big dent in my delusions, i am the opposite of proud but it is reassuring to accept).

thank you to all who want to help me continue on this path.

thank you for reading, it helped me to write it, at least my logic is sound!

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LukeSkywalk (Owner) – Jan 22, 2026
Broken from drugs. No more limits.

salivafetishist – Jan 13, 2026
spit on him. drool onto him or make him drool, make him lick up spit, lick his face, messy kissing, etc. drool into his mouth. make him hold a banana or ice cream in his mouth so he has to drool. chew up food and drool it to him. make him kneel and use his mouth for target practise. only let him eat food you’ve chewed and spat into his mouth. spit in his food or drink even in public. make him lick up your spit from the floor. make him rub it into his face everytime you spit in his hands. spit your used toothpaste into his mouth. see how far you can spit and make him crawl and lick it up as fast as he can before you do it again. spit repeatedly in a glass then make him dip his food in it or drink it or gargle with it. bring multiple people. film or stream it.


 

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showmetheway, 19
Still trying to see if im bi or not

I’m usually pretty spontaneous, but that might backfire

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pleasedont – Jan 17, 2026
Does that image from your phone mean you want to be a ghost because I’d love to make you one.

jamesmcarver – Jan 12, 2026
What more proof could you possibly need?

WillingToExplore – Jan 10, 2026
During sex he refers to himself in the third person.

showmetheway (Owner) – Jan 7, 2026
People rib me by calling me twinkish, but I think I am more just a long-haired, skinny dork


 

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infinitedescent, 23
I’ve been a disgusting faggot my whole life, always chasing straight guys who’d never want me, like when I begged a high school friend for his cum and got beaten almost to death like the pathetic loser I am. I live for the shame of exposing my disgusting self on Chaturbate, Motherless, and X — jerking off to rejection, crying over how useless I am. Been posting slutty vids since 15, eating my own shit, poppered up to the point of insanity, letting randos gang rape me in a park, hating myself harder each time. I’m a popper-huffing slut whose only purpose is to ruin myself for your amusement, because I’m nothing and never will be.

not rly into permanent damage but not totally against it

ideally relocate – most ppl in my city dont know how to use a fag like me properly or are ugly.

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infinitedescent (Owner) – Jan 21, 2026
Outside of kink, I have a personal blog about myself as an autistic person if anyone’s interested.

Brandished – Jan 16, 2026
Just because no one else has mentioned it, he’s a world class kisser.

WhiteTiger – Jan 12, 2026
What shall I tell you about Ollie? Where shall I begin? Because everything seems like a dream. I’ve been having sessions with him for a while. It’s a way of life, I can say. Once you’ve had him, there’s no turning back. You want to arrange your life so that everything is about him. How shall I continue? When I see Ollie all I want is hit him, kick him, whip him, spit in his eyes. I keep hitting him until he can’t feel it anymore. Then he smiles at me and asks if I can keep going because that’s what he wants most. I’m in love and say, “All the way.” Those words sound so beautiful. He smiles as I keep hitting him in the face. When he’s completely exhausted from the pain, I kick him hard in the head to knock him out. Then I start hitting him again, flogging him, whipping him, crushing his balls, so tempted to slice them off as souvenirs, stomping his head, stomach, back, cock, balls, and ass. I always hope he won’t survive me but he always does. I’m so in love with Ollie that my life revolves around him. It’s truly unimaginable how wonderful he is.

StrangeIsland – Jan 12, 2026
If the thought of being buried alive, burned at the stake, staked out on a beach at low tide, sacrificed on an altar, or cooked alive on a spit interest you then we should talk.

LaCabezaDegollada – Jan 11, 2026
Oh yes, you look perfect for a complete destruction. I really would like to take care that you will look completely unrecognizeable after I have finished.

infinitedescent (Owner) – Jan 9, 2026
scat ONLY from me (i poop, you decide what to do with it)



 

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MonsterDickNick, 21
Everyone wants my big dick but I really want to be emasculated on a chopping block or with a guillotine. Banding beforehand, wound care afterwards. I give my written consent beforehand, you execute at the time of your choice. Optional sex or mental destruction via any means before.

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MonsterDickNick (Owner) – Jan 4, 2026
I hate texting. I just use a regular cell/flip phone and texting takes forever. I can type much faster on my computer keyboard here. I like to talk over the phone instead of texting.



 

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rabbitsinthewild, 20
Some of you in Southern California are familiar with my group of slaves due to our occasional public presentations (see: pix). For personal reasons I need to offload one of them, doesn’t matter which. All in the 19 to 23 age range. Accepting cash, no trades. Prices vary. If you want to talk to me via text: Two1Eight-FiveSix5-nine53eight.

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CultivatedDom – Jan 21, 2026
My partner and I have owned the Latino slave with chest tattoos quite happily and successfully since late November.
He lives in our studio and play spaces.
We put him in all sorts of bondage, do horrible things to him, XXL dildos and huge toys, deepthroat to vomiting is standard, and make him pump loads in our mouths.
I’m sure that you can appreciate that we are very focused on him.

-SUCK-MY-DICK- – Sept10, 2025
The blond with the stupid face makeup has a huge interest in alcohol. Sex with him needs to be orientated around that. Eventually he’ll end up crouched over your toilet throwing up or passed out.




 

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thisismadness, 19
hello there! who am i? if i only knew.
im new to being sexually objectified. like EXTREMELY new.
i do have 11 dildos (with the longest being 24 inches) and a fuck machine, 3 gas masks, harnesses/cuffs, a metal chastity device, etc… i just ordered my first catsuit and can’t wait for it to get here!

here are some things about me:
– i currently live in southern utah.
– i LOVE music. it is my life. i have a little over 320 records and so many cds and cassettes i can’t even count. the best decades in my opinion were the 60s, late 80s (like the pixies or stone roses or cocteau twins) , 90s, and 00s. my favorite genres are alternative rock, midwest emo, shoegaze, permanent wave, punk, new wave, grunge, psychedelic, and so so many more.
– clothes are huge to me. i thrift almost everything i wear. if i don’t thrift it i buy it off depop or ebay. clothes are just so cool and my style matches my music taste 100%.
– getting baked with friends is one of my favorite things to do. always looking for stoner friends! 😸
– my favorite movie is the perks of being a wallflower and my favorite book at the moment is wouldn’t it be nice, my own story by brian wilson.
– im a big fan of architecture. mostly anything built in the 50s and 60s but i love all of it. when they blend together to create a city… oh man. so cool.

enough about me. reach out and let’s do literally anything!

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Justastranger – Jan 17, 2026
he thought his coke tasted funny but he drank it.

FoodDesigner – Jan 13, 2026
His ass is unbelievable. For sure within my top 3, if not even number 1. And believe me: I’ve seen more asses than a toilet seat.

Old-Fag-Slut – Jan 8, 2026
His saliva tastes like unsweetened tea.


 

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tim, 18
name of sub: tim
stats: 18/168 /50
issue: mentally challenged
location: singapore
goal: have a gf and have been very straight all my life but an urge to watch women in porn and imagine myself as them got stronger over the years and led to wanting to watch them being punished and now i’m here as I can’t resist anymore
also: anyone who can help me get modelling work if possible. only done a couple of shoots so far
package deal

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tim (Owner) – Jan 16, 2026
absolutely no C.H.U.D.s, replicators (human-form or otherwise) or homunculi created from human transmutation (homunculi by birth are OK)

tim (Owner) – Jan 8, 2026
if your older than 28 you can do it but i wont get hard

mynameiskerwin – Jan 2, 2026
On a trivia note, I’m the man eating out his ass in the lowest photo.

tim (Owner) – Jan 2, 2026
want gays for being mood




 

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sebthedumbfag, 22
I’m a gamer, and also a nerd who’s obsessed with science and the Titanic. I’ve been getting choked regularly since I was 7 years old and I still can’t get enough. I even love talking about it. I am here looking for anyone who is interested in choking me, experienced or not, I’m down! It really doesn’t matter to me if you want to meet up and choke me for hours with multiple outages or if you’re a newbie and just wanna choke me out once and split, I want to meet you! So, if you’re obsessed with choking a boy like I am, with your hands, arms, legs, favorite ligature, necktie, or noose, message me and let’s do it!!!!

I like to be forced to be beaten up ppl either one or by a group like a dumb brainwashed idiot. Post my pics on Reddit or X let them see me as the retard I am.

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Chokestud – Jan 11, 2026
Once I got my hands situated around his neck, I locked in my grip across his throat, fingers and thumbs searching out for the pulse, feeling his pulse in every heartbeat as he twitched and convulsed and I tightened up my grip tighter and tighter until it was gone. I have the patience of a python. Nighty-night!

youdontfindbetter – Jan 9, 2026
More accurate photo

XperienceL – Jan 7, 2026
This past December I met this boy in a cruising bar in Stockholm. As he was sucking me I slapped him. Then choked him against the wall. Then I punched him in the face and split his lip and broke his nose. And finished by kicking him in the head on the ground. Sadly enough we had to stop as some guys seemed really worried and were about to stop it or to report him. Is there any place you know where I could do this to him more freely?

 

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Kidnapping2Rape, 18
I’m being trafficked to Berlin to date as a rape victim. Any man can have me anonymously until someone rapes my boy pussy until my brain is gone and I’m nothing but rape meat and abducts me permanently 24/7//NO RETURN.

Anonymous visits in a hotel room are possible.

Mercure Hotel
Hermannstrasse 214-216,
12049 Berlin

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fanTZ – Jan 16, 2026
Funny, I remember when this boy was so uncomfortable around gay guys that if one even looked at his ass he’d clench it tight like a fort.

 

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wantmyballsgone, 19
Just once, I want someone who is serious to reach out to me. I left this site for about a year, but it was recommended I should come back. I’m looking for someone who can help with the following: get my balls tied up or elastrator banded, together or apart, pulled, stretched, weighed down, pumped, light beating, skewered with needles through the sac and balls, vodka alcohol injections into my balls, sac cutting and balls exposed outside the sac, and beyond. Best regards, Bill

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wantmyballsgone (Owner) – Jan 14, 2026
I’m being serious, don’t think this is some kind of joke. If you’re looking for someone you can love, someone you can be emotional with, then I’m afraid I’m not the right person for you. I no longer have any sexual needs or desires myself, and please don’t expect me to find your intimate areas attractive. I’ll bring my medications: Lorazepam, Mirtazapine, Sertraline, Quetiapine XR, and Quetiapine IR. I need to take these regularly, so please be understanding. Thank you, Bill



 

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BeYourselfXX, 20
Looking for men these day can’t able to trust gurl

I work for Amazon

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BeYourselfXX (Owner) – Jan 20, 2026
Also cld try imprisoned for life or an insane asylum.

Noproblems – Jan 16, 2026
looking to stick it in ur ass in ur car drive over

BeYourselfXX (Owner) – Jan 7, 2026
I am a skinny guy with what I have been told is a very attractive ass. I have BEEN a skinny guy with what I have been told is a very attractive ass for some time now. I am in the process of going to the gym to get some muscles. It’s rather hard overcoming a lifetime of skinniness, but I’m told it can be done. That being said, I’m also learning to love myself. In other words, don’t like skinny guys? I’m crushed. Oh wait, no, die in a fire.

 

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Cargo, 24
this white fag bitch just arrived back on US after being in Saudi Arabia where it served Superior Arab owners, is now available here to use and be owned as a white sex slave whore, it was taken to Saudi Arabia from France at age 13 leashed by its superior arab owners! no limits and do whatever guys want… it White meat to use and abuse, by sadists as it maso. It is a nymphomaniac and sex addict cause it need get fuck all the time, get throat fucked with big cocks in saudi arabia, it still got cock and balls for owners. Sex slave Whore 100% submissive, is small 5’3” 135 lbs, shaved all over with smooth white skin, no tattoos, marks and bruises easy so guys like that, into needles, cutting , whippings, cigarette burn torture.. can suck and swallow big cocks deep stretched open asshole, for FF (two hands in) in, do BB, cock and balls still there for torture, some owners want rid of them to make another hole for guys to use. It has make real brutal gang rape child porn videos, still on dark web, you prbly seen them got no limits as pain pig whore owners can do any body changes marks, scarring, branding, tattoos if they want as their owned slave for life. Slave was juvenile prison whore, arrested in a truck stop age 11, did 4 years in prison as a white trash prison child whore…was passed around, traded as a “favor whore”, so good for groups, there is no NO in prison., so lots of horror use, slave can never cum cause was hypnotized in prison…to never cum … why it want fuck all the time. Owned property slave bitch, been keep locked up, chained, caged, used to be moved in a rolling suitcases, treat like inferior white, filthy, pig, trash whore that it is, Got No family, no one look for slave whore, so it can disappear nobody care or look for slave, … also ready to be used for the production underground rapesexporn in arabia before i will be deported into jail with no return, not care what happens to it!…

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Boopityboopboop – Jan 6, 2026
If those are recent photos, his body’s healing power must be supernatural.

Muppetspice – Jan 5, 2026
I never use superlatives. But… I was given him to use for an evening about a year and a half ago when I was visiting Jeddah. I can’t explain why, for the very first time, I feel that only a superlative can do justice to this absolutely extraordinary slave. It breaks my heart that I will not be able to see him again, as he is clearly on a death trip. I will miss him deeply.


 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Steeqhen, The Rolling Stones’s artsy period is the albums ‘Between the Buttons’ and ‘Satanic Majesties’, both highly investigable. My favorite identical twin pop stars were The Williams Twins aka Andy and David Williams in the early 70s. But they were infinitely more wussy and laid back. ** _Black_Acrylic, I’m so happy Morgan liked ‘RT’! And, yes, I heard the screening was sold out. So nice! ** Laura, It is. Fun and much more. I’m nowhere near shiny and snarky enough to be in Gregg’s current output. One of the great things about LA is that its jumbled layout results in all kinds of back- and secret routes to get where you’re going if the traffic is bad, so even trips to familiar places can be a discovery. I’ve been to The Vault. Not recently. I see the fun, but it isn’t really my cup of tea. I think Tarantino is only vaguely involved in the Vista’s programming. It’s not bad albeit always quite entertainment oriented. I’m not sure whether to wish Kayden luck or not. I guess not ultimately. ** kenley, See? Editing is the best part by far. Well, for me. Great! Writing the first draft is just the chore required to get to the fun part. For me. Going to galleries has been one of my main activities since I was a wee lad. But I’ve always lived in so-called cultural metropolis-like cities. I’m doing that yet again today actually. Lots of potentially inspiring input for my general brain and for my writing, and all of it for totally free! It sounds like your crush guy is worthy of your crush, haha. ** Lucas, I’m good, the usual. ‘Asiye’s Story’ sounds super interesting, of course. Wow, that is quite an intro. I would be more than totally down for the post you suggest, of course, if it winds up being an exciting time taker for you. Thanks, pal. ** Carsten, You’ve seen his movies? There are quite exciting films being made, but they won’t show at your local cinema or multiplex. You have to forage for them. Or find the adventurous film venues on social media and follow them. That helps. And I try to do my part. ** Måns BT., Oops. Hi, Elis, if you’re out there looking at here. I’m going to go watch the two things you have posted to the kollektivtarbt insta page this weekend. A band! What is your part in said band? Try to do a gig while we’re in Stockholm. I’m reading two books but they aren’t published yet. One of them, ‘Magician’ by Tracy Lynn Oliver is really excellent if you can wait until it’s born in May. I’ll try to start reading something you can buy now. See you tomorrow too! ** Steve, 2030! Nice! Generally I haven’t read the works of the Alt Right writers I know about. They seem to be into writing genre stuff a lot. The one I have read is ok. I don’t want to say his name but he’s fairly well known in the general indie/alternative lit scene. ** Dustin, Hi! You’re kind of almost making me want to try ‘Oz’. ‘Mother Horse Eyes’: I’m not there yet. Thank you for reminding me. I did a formal notation this time. ** HaRpEr //, That makes sense and is disheartening. About the ‘gender critical’ activist. The period of the Rolling Stones from, say, the ‘Aftermath’ album through ‘Satanic Majesties’ is quite strong. You can hear them trying to find ways to move their blues/rock thing outward and forward, and it gets rich and messy at times. Ultimately, I think they’re pretty interesting through ‘Exile’, but then they just started representing what they thought people wanted The Rolling Stones to be, and there’s hardly ever or maybe nothing at all exciting from then on. To me. Haha, no, I made that up about The Dave Clarke Five Fan Club. I don’t remember why or why I chose them or why I thought that would be intriguing or amusing. Strange. ** Bill, Hi, B. The Franco film is called ‘My Own Private River’, and you can watch it on youtube here. Thanks for your link. I’ll go watch. Sounds amazing. ** Okay. (Almost) last day of the month = the slaves of this month. See you tomorrow.

Peter Whitehead’s Day

 

‘Peter Whitehead could justifiably claim to be one of Britain’s most distinctive and provocative film-makers. His film about the Rolling Stones, Charlie Is My Darling (1966), was a pioneering portrait of the group amid the whirlwind of fan mania, its on-the-road intimacy a precursor of Donn Pennebaker’s Bob Dylan film Don’t Look Back and a blueprint for countless future music documentaries.

‘In Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (1967), Whitehead created what for many critics was the definitive document of swinging London in its period as a white-hot crucible of music, fashion and film. The many short music films Whitehead made in the 1960s foreshadowed the era of the video promo clip that blossomed in the MTV era of the 80s.

‘But by the time he made The Fall (1969), arguably his masterpiece, the intellectually restless Whitehead had moved beyond being merely an onlooker recording events with his camera and was pursuing his own inner journey through a period of violent social and political change.

‘His most intensely creative period began in 1965, when he filmed the International Poetry Incarnation – a gathering of beat poets, including Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti – at the Royal Albert Hall in London, to make the 33-minute documentary Wholly Communion.

‘Word of this reached the Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, who invited Whitehead to film the Stones’ trip to Belfast and Dublin in September that year. The resulting Charlie Is My Darling had its first public screening at the 1966 Mannheim film festival, where it was considered for the gold medal (which was won instead by Wholly Communion). However, a clash with Oldham about the film’s portrayal of the Stones meant that it never went on general release.

‘Whitehead did further work with the Stones, including the promo film for the single Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? (1966) and the audacious clip for We Love You (1967). The latter was shot the day before Mick Jagger and Keith Richards appealed against their drug convictions, and starred the two Stones and Marianne Faithfull in a remake of Oscar Wilde’s indecency trial. “My ambitions are very high – none higher – to be a genius in and with the cinema,” Whitehead wrote in a letter to Oldham.

‘Though he was a classical music enthusiast with little interest in pop, Whitehead understood its potency. He shot films with the Small Faces, the Beach Boys, Eric Burdon, Jimi Hendrix, Nico, the Beach Boys and Pink Floyd, and in 1970 he made a memorable concert film of Led Zeppelin at the Albert Hall.

‘While Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London made Whitehead the toast of the 60s in-crowd, the film also included critical remarks about the vapidity of the London milieu from Jagger, Michael Caine and David Hockney. Whitehead himself, a vehement opponent of US imperialism and the Vietnam war, had a theory that the invention of “swinging London” was “a CIA manoeuvre designed to make British counterculture appear inconsequential and impotent”, as he wrote in 2002.

‘Thus he was enthusiastic about Peter Brook’s invitation to film his experimental Royal Shakespeare Company play US, designed to challenge British apathy about the escalating Vietnam conflict. When the resulting film, Benefit of the Doubt, was screened alongside Tonite … at the New York film festival in September 1967, Whitehead was invited to make a film about the New York “scene”.

‘He was eager to oblige, but the project, eventually released as The Fall (1969), ballooned into a panorama of politics, violent protest and an anguished examination of the role of the documentary film-maker, as Whitehead became a participant in the 1968 student occupation of New York’s Columbia University. His filming schedule was bookended by the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. He wrote that when he got back to London, “I had a nervous breakdown. Didn’t speak for three months.”

‘The traumas of making The Fall prompted Whitehead to move away from film-making. Though he made Daddy (1973), a sexual psychodrama about the sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle, and Fire in the Water (1977), a vehicle for his then partner Nathalie Delon, his attention now centred on breeding falcons. A student of ancient Egyptian mythology, he was obsessed with the story of Isis and Osiris giving birth to Horus the falcon.’ — The Guardian

 

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Further

Peter Whitehead Official Site
Peter Whitehead @ IMDb
Whitehead, Peter (1937- 2019)
Notes from Underground
‘The Films of Peter Whitehead’, by Robert Chilcott
Peter Whitehead – Réalisateur de ‘Pop Concerto’
Peter Whitehead et Niki de Saint Phalle : Daddy
DVD: Peter Whitehead and the Sixties
Peter Whitehead @ datacide
The Word and the Image: The Films of Peter Whitehead
Peter Whitehead, il filmmaker della lotta e del rock
Peter Whitehead @ The Sticking Place
From pop concerto to falconry – a beginner’s guide to Peter Whitehead’s world
PETER WHITEHEAD: REVOLUTION, REVELATION – PINK FLOYD LONDON 1966-1967
Peter Whitehead Was There
‘I’ve never been interested in the real world’

 

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Extras



In the Beginning was the Image: Conversations with Peter Whitehead


The Move in a rare early interview by Peter Whitehead


Peter Whitehead Piece

 

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Interview
from Electric Sheep

 

CLF: What can you tell us about the film you’re now working on, Terrorism Considered as one of the Fine Arts?

PW: My new film can be considered The Fall‘s sequel since it enacts the end of representation. The protagonist is Michael Schlieman, a MI6 spy working in the terrorism section of the British intelligence. He disappeared and will publish his ‘confessions’ on the internet, revealing the truth about secret operations carried out by various governments. There is a parallel between the sinking of the French Greenpeace boat, the Rainbow Warrior, and the terrorist state murder of a Greenpeace photographer. Schlieman is now part of an eco-terrorist group… the central element of the film is the killing of an ideal victim. I want to investigate the CIA’s influence on English culture, which is based on misinformation. This new film is influenced by Thomas De Quincey’s novels, Confessions of an Opium Eater and Murder Considered as a Fine Art, and I’d say that it is about fear and control, or better still, about the fear that the state spreads in order to control. After having destroyed the Third World now we are also destroying this planet; Gaia is now, rightly so, revolting.

CLF: Can cinema participate in social struggles, or does it merely register/ document?

PW: Yes, partly it can but it’s just a little part. I think that avant-garde art always has to be directly and belligerently dangerous, destructive, but not towards itself, rather, towards the collective inertia. The true aim of art should be to cultivate acts of war… it’s not enough to paint words on walls, these walls need to be torn down.

CLF: Can you tell us more about the magazine you co-founded, Afterimage?

PW: I founded that magazine with Field and Sainsbury in 1970, we were mainly influenced by Cahiers and its political commitment and wanted to bring across the channel some avant-garde cinema such as Godard’s British Sounds (Peter Whitehead was the first one to translate Godard’s films into English) which remains little seen to these days. We were the first to publish the Manifesto of Third Cinema by Solanas and Getino in Europe besides reviewing Guney, Fassbinder and Herzog among others.

CLF: While watching the early Rolling Stones performances in Charlie is My Darling I felt that back then they were using a language that many found dangerous and hyper-kinetic. What attracted you most to that band?

PW: You got the point, the media back then was focusing on the style of the band while for me it was a matter of form or language, as you said. They were adopting the musical culture of the Afro-Americans, an oppressed minority, therefore that music was carrying a strong political message in itself. Jagger himself said, ‘music is one of the things that can change society, don’t let white kids listen to black music if you want them to remain how they are’.

CLF: I’ve just watched your first film The Perception of Life, and in spite of being poles apart from the rest of your production I thought that it somehow represented your cinema quite well. What do you think of that film?

PW: I have to admit that back then I didn’t like the film but, later on I got interested by the fact that it was all shot through a microscope, in other words I was not using the camera, I was using a microscope, and many sequences are shot through the oldest machines used by scientists. We were looking for what these scientists were seeing through those lenses. Perception shows how theories are determined by what is visible. You’re right, in a sense all my films are linked to the idea of using the camera as a microscope. I think that in all my films I enter a situation and I try to analyse it from the inside.

 

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14 of Peter Whitehead’s 21 films

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Wholly Communion (1966)
‘Now celebrated as the quintessential document of the event that marked the arrival of the counterculture in England, Wholly Communion was actually captured under highly restricted conditions – and was almost never completed. The First International Poetry Incarnation, an evening of American and British Beat poetry, took place on 11th June 1965; the film’s birth was as spontaneous as the event itself. Peter Whitehead had attended an intimate reading by Allen Ginsberg, at which was suggested the apparently foolhardy idea of booking the Albert Hall for Ginsberg and his contemporaries to gather and perform their poems. Yet after a few days’ organisation, 7,000 people of various hitherto unconnected subcultures arrived, with many turned away as tickets sold out.

Wholly Communion is perhaps the most distinctive British example of a documentary movement that attempted to capture reality while interrogating it: ‘direct cinema’. Whitehead’s camera draws attention to itself and the filmmaker’s presence by filming Gregory Corso’s reading from between two other poets talking during the performance. This technique emphasises the filmmaker’s subjectivity while also identifying the camera (and therefore the viewer) with the perspective of the audience present at the event.

‘Whitehead shows as much interest in the audience as he does in the poets. Exotic spectators such as the girl who dances with a flower to the cadence of Ginsberg’s oratory appear just as significant as the central performances. The sense of disintegration between audience and performance is most palpable when Whitehead’s camera searches the auditorium to train in on a poet in the audience who, in a state of intoxication, interrupts Harry Fainlight’s reading by crying out the words “Love! Love!”‘ — bfi


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The Rolling Stones: Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? (1966)
‘Peter Whitehead’s promotional film for the single was one of the first music videos.’ — Wikipedia

 

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Charlie is my Darling (1966)
‘Whitehead catches the band while its feet are still touching the ground and while its members are still facing both the homey pleasures and the mounting terrors of a relatively un-insulated life, while their joy in making music and in having a limber jaunt together is still fresh and their success is still a lightly gilded serendipity. Whitehead, filming in black and white with agile, handheld cameras, gets some crucial things right. He wants to hear the Stones speak, and he keeps them aware of the camera, eliciting the unique mixture of the unguarded and the self-dramatizing that is the hallmark of cinema verité. The film captures some fine moments of performance, some revealing moments of offhanded intimacy, and others of purposeful reflection—and, over-all, it presents an astonishingly clear sense of the grandeur and decadence of Stones-ism.’ — The New Yorker


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Jeanetta Cochrane (1967)
‘More consciously experimental than Whitehead’s other works, this film draws on a variety of sources, including sequences of London shot while Whitehead was at the Slade School of Art, glimpses of the singer and model Nico, and footage of the psychedelic underground nightclub UFO. There is also on-screen text, a voice critiquing it, and music from Pink Floyd, at this point still fronted by Syd Barrett–Whitehead’s old painting friend from Cambridge. The track here, “Interstellar Overdrive”, was recorded by Whitehead before the band signed to EMI and is much more exciting and beat-driven than the version they would later record for the label. There is no explicit link between the content of the film and the Cochrane Theatre, which is is named after, but the theatre was used as a venue for the Spontaneous Festival of Underground Films in 1966.’ — letterboxd

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The Rolling Stones: We Love You (1967)
‘The promotional film for the single was directed by Peter Whitehead. It included footage from recording sessions along with segments that re-enacted the 1895 trial of Oscar Wilde, with Jagger, Richards and Marianne Faithfull respectively portraying Wilde, Marquess of Queensberry, and Lord Alfred Douglas. Footage also appears of Brian Jones, apparently high on drugs with his eyes drooping and unfocused. The producer of Top of the Pops refused to show the film on that programme. A BBC spokesman stated the producer did not think it was suitable for the type of audience who watches Top of the Pops. He went on to say there was not a ban on it by the BBC, it was simply this producer’s decision.’ — Wikipedia

 

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Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (1967)
‘Peter Whitehead’s disjointed Swinging London documentary, subtitled “A Pop Concerto,” comprises a number of different “movements,” each depicting a different theme underscored by music: A early version of Pink Floyd’s “Interstellar Overdrive” plays behind some arty nightclub scenes, while Chris Farlowe’s rendition of the Rolling Stones’ “Out of Time” accompanies a young woman’s description of London nightlife and the vacuousness of her own existence. In another segment, the Marquess of Kensington (Robert Wace) croons the nostalgic “Changing of the Guard” to shots of Buckingham Palace’s changing of the guard, and recording act Vashti are seen at work in the studio. Sandwiched between are clips of Mick Jagger (discussing revolution), Andrew Loog Oldham (discussing his future) – and Julie Christie, Michael Caine, Lee Marvin, and novelist Edna O’Brien (each discussing sex). The best part is footage of the riot that interrupted the Stones’ 1966 Royal Albert Hall concert.’ — collaged


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w/ Denis Cannan The Benefit of the Doubt (1967)
‘Based on a play by Peter Brook, entitled U.S., is a critical look at the devastation and inhumanity of war. Whitehead adds to the original footage gathered from television news about the Vietnam conflict, a conflict that bled in all its fullness and divided the world into peace and imperialists.’ — film affinity


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Pink Floyd London ’66-’67 (1967)
‘Shot by movie maestro Peter Whitehead, this film features rare full length performances from the classic late 60’s Pink Floyd line-up at Sound Techniques London & material from the legendary ‘14 hour Technicolor Dream’ extravaganza in April ’67 at Alexandra Palace.’ — letterboxd


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The Rolling Stones: 2000 Light Years From Home (1967)
‘The clip, filmed and produced in 1967, has now been restored in 4K resolution and released digitally for the first time. The “promotional film,” as it was known back then, was directed by the late Peter Whitehead and shot on 35 MM film. The performance clip opens with closeups of the band members bathed in various colors, with Mick Jagger’s face painted, something he would do again for the “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” video, which was filmed the following year. The track, written by Mick and Keith Richards, was the B-side to the single “She’s A Rainbow.” It is believed Mick wrote the lyrics in prison during an incarceration from a drug bust.’ — kslx

 

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Pink Floyd: Recording Interstellar Overdrive and Nick’s Boogie (1967)
‘The recording of “Interstellar Overdrive'” and “Nick’s Boogie'” was originally filmed for Whitehead’s film Tonite Lets All Make Love in London but weren’t used in the film’ — PF

 

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The Small Faces & P.P. Arnold: (If You Think You’re) Groovy (1967)
‘The Small Faces, along with Immediate” artist P.P. Arnold and film director Peter Whitehead traveled to Camber Sands to film an Immediate Records promotion film. The 16mm colour film was later used for the promos of The Small Faces’ “Itchycoo Park” and they gave “Groovy” to P.P. Arnold. The Small Faces play on this track, basically making it a Small Faces’ record with P.P. Arnold guesting on vocals.’ — bbc

 

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The Fall (1969)
‘Between October 1967 and June 1968 he filmed in and around New York. Whitehead concentrated on some of the central figures of the civil-rights movement and counter-culture like Stokely Carmichael, Robert Lowell, Paul Auster, Arthur Miller and Robert Rauschenberg. He even managed to get behind the barricades of the radical students from Columbia University while police units insist on trying to break up the occupation of the campus. John Patterson (Vienna Festival Catalogue): ‘Whitehead was his own one-man film unit and was fond of asynchronous images and sounds, allowing new meanings and feelings to arise from the creative use of incongruity. The exemplar of his approach was the dizzyingly impressionistic essay-movie The Fall. Like many a 60s Englishman in America – Hockney, Boorman, Schlesinger, Peter Watkins – he came to the U.S. equipped with freshly-peeled eyeballs and saw a turbulent, vibrant, violent nation in ways Americans themselves often did not. The Fall is unlike any other record of the period – a time a lot like now, full of anti-war and civil-rights demonstrations and profound national self-examination – perhaps because its very obscurity has kept it fresh.’ — EH/iffr

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w/ Niki De Saint Phalle Daddy (1973)
Daddy, filmed in cooperation with movie director Peter Whitehead, discovers the connection between a father and little girl. Like the majority of Niki De Saint Phalle’s films, the flick combines autobiography with imagination, mixing erotic scenes of incest with a reverse of energy as the female character humors the daddy figure. Saint Phalle narrates the film, offering an almost psycho-analytical explanation of its content and explains the different inexplicable.’ — Letterboxd

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Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts (2009)
‘My film is largely based on the recent novel of the same title. It is the first novel of a trilogy entitled “The Nohzone Trilogy”. The second novel is entitled “Nature’s Child” and the third “Girl on the Train”. The central element of the film is the killing of an “ideal victim”. I want to investigate the CIA’s influence on English culture, which is based on misinformation. This new film is influenced by Thomas De Quincey’s novels, “Confessions of an Opium Eater” and “Murder Considered as a Fine Art”, and I would say that it is about fear and control, or better still, about the fear that the state spreads in order to control. After having destroyed the Third World now we are also destroying this planet. Gaia is now, rightly so, revolting.’ — Peter Whitehead

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** _Black_Acrylic, Awesome, I hope your friend enjoyed it, obviously. Thanks again for pointing her there in any case. Interesting about that doc. I don’t have Netflix, but I’ll see if I can find it somewhere else. I’ve seen video of that Jeremy Deller piece, of course. ** Charalampos, The film Gregg asked me to be in was ‘The Living End’. I haven’t seen ‘Kaboom’. Hey back from you know where. ** Bill, Odd and intriguing it most certainly is. Kind of shocking that so many hadn’t seen ‘MOPI’. Or maybe shocking that I would have expected them too? You’ve seen the film made up of outtakes of ‘MOPI’? There’s some wonderful stuff in there, if you haven’t. It was put together by James Franco, but don’t let that stop you. ** Carsten, I think maybe things are such that an energetic film that doesn’t depend on CGI and color grading and has an inkling of a decent ideology seems pretty tasty. I liked ‘Sinners’. I thought it was solid and well done. We remain non-stormy as usual. ** Laura, I’m still poring, and it is fun among loftier things. Gosh, thank you about ‘Period’. It was a very complicated and difficult novel to write on many levels. Maybe not as much on a technical level as ‘The Marbled Swarm’, but second at least. And, obviously, there was a lot of emotion to wade through and try to regulate with ‘Period’. You can get ‘The Golden Fruits’ for free from Anna’s Archive. The Vista was closed for years but reopened a few years ago, now owned and somewhat directed by Tarantino. The only problem with LA is the parking situation can be so difficult. Well, and the traffic. But I’m a calm driver. I’m beset with horror and a terrible helplessness re: Minneapolis and ICE and a million other US endangering crap situations over here in Paris too, yes. I have an allergy to fabrics and dyes, and have to wear organic clothes which very much prevents me from being into clothes as a thing The night was pretty grayed-out from what I could see of it. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T! I obviously so agree. You good? You really, really good? xo. ** kenley, Yay on the editing. It went well, I trust? Fuck knows where that Ira Cohen thing is. I guess he must have an estate or archive or something? My all-time favorite gallery was called Feature in NYC. It’s defunct now, but there’s a book about it. In Paris, I go to a lot of galleries, and they’re all pretty hit and miss. I do really like a small gallery called Art/Concept. Among the bigger ones, Marian Goodman Gallery usually has good shows. Do you have galleries where you are, or any you like? ** Måns BT, Måns! Yes, we’re set! How about that? Yay, we’ll get to meet and hang and have fun. Oh, interesting, about Ellis. I think I remember his thing about the blog murder. On the Q&A, trust your instincts. It’d be totally good and more for us if it’s just us three talking, for sure. You made a short film! Excellent! I’ll go find kollektivtarbt on Instagram and follow you. Wait, I just did. I hope you had a good sleep, whatever that would entail. ** Steeqhen, I wasn’t into Jedward’s music, surely needless to say, but I was interested by their brand’s construction. I’ve heard of ‘Bulk’, but that’s all. Hm, maybe I’ll investigate further. Strange but totally understandable. It’s very hard being an empath in this world today. ** Steve, I can’t remember, but I’m pretty sure he’s into Houellbecq. Luck with the jury duty escaping. Just remember if all else fails, ‘anarchist’. ** HaRpEr //, With the Alt Right guy writers I’m familiar with, it really seems like repressed transphobia in particular exploding outwards. Having had the ‘outlaw writer’ tag on myself forever, it’s a yawn, but it could be worse. Haha, nice ending, very ‘DiV’ indeed. ** Uday, I think Gregg’s interest in putting me in a movie is long since dead. Not a problem for me. Wow, cool that you’ve already started the Sarraute. You would get the blog’s Gold Star of the Day if I gave them out. Sounds like first week jitters, but pray tell after you guys settle in. ** Right. Today the blog concentrates on the work of the groovy Brit filmmaker and music video pioneer Peter Whitehead if you’re interested in seeing what he’s about. See you tomorrow.

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