Career
He is also known for his work as a director of promotional film clips (precursors to the modern music video) including a version of "Interstellar Overdrive" for Pink Floyd and several clips for The Rolling Stones. In 1997, Iain Sinclair collaborated with Chris Petit, sculptor Steve Dilworth and others to make, a 56 minute semi-fictional "documentary" film about Whitehead, set in London and the Outer Hebrides. This film was described by Sinclair in 2003 as "Initially he (Whitehead) loved the film..his determination to tell his story was such that he kept bombarding us with amazing fragments and endless images, because he"s one of the few people whose entire life was documented in images".
The film also features Stewart Home, Kathy Acker and Howard Marks.