Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol(1976)

Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol is a documentary film compiled from Michel Auder's video diaries of the downtown New York art scene in the late 1960s and 1970s. The film captures intimate moments from Andy Warhol's life: his 1970 Whitney Museum retrospective opening, a gathering at John Lennon and Yoko Ono's home, tense phone calls with Factory associates Viva and Brigid Berlin, and an interview with Pop Art pioneer Larry Rivers following the 1975 publication of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. A recurring thread involves Viva's demands for money after she left the Factory in 1969, documented through threatening letters she sent Warhol. The film offers rare glimpses into Warhol's world during a pivotal moment in American art history.