Considered by Whitehead to be his most important film, “TheFall” is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking, an extremely personal statement onviolence, revolution and the turbulence within late sixties America. Filmed entirelyin and around New York between October 1967 and June 1968, the result is anastonishing hybrid of fiction and non-fiction, a subjective take on the AmericanLeft and its confrontation with the power elite that was waging war on Vietnam.Richard Roud, co-director of the New York Film Festival wrote of the film, “…anattempt to come to grips with today”. Whitehead explains: and non-fiction, asubjective take on the American Left and its confrontation with the power elite thatwas waging war on Vietnam. "What I was actually filming was the collapse - the'fall' - of an increasingly ineffective and impotent protest movement”.