Michel Auder
Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol

1971-1976, video, 88 minutes

In 1969 Michel Auder began a series of video diaries that chronicled the art scene in downtown New York. In Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol, Auder captures revealing moments in Warhol's public and private life: the opening of the 1970 Whitney Museum retrospective, a party held at John Lennon and Yoko Ono's home, a heated telephone conversation between Warhol, Viva and Brigid Berlin, and an illuminating interview conducted with Larry Rivers, the grandfather of Pop Art, following the publication of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol in 1975. The issue of money is a consistent topic of conversation with Viva, who after departing the Factory in 1969 sent Warhol a series of threatening letters demanding money.

Stuart Comer
Stuart Comer is Curator: Film at Tate Modern. He is editor of ‘Film and Video Art’ (Tate Publishing, 2009) and has contributed to numerous publications and periodicals. He was co-curator of the 2007 Lyon Biennial and has participated in symposia, talks and events at numerous international venues. He chaired the jury for the Derek Jarman Award for artists' film and video in 2009, and is a juror for the inaugural Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize in 2009.