Chelsea Girls is a 1966 film directed by Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol. The film was Warhol's first major commercial success, and was shot at the Hotel Chelsea and various other locations in New York City. The film, starring many of Warhol's superstars, takes place at the hotel, and follows the lives of several of the young women who live there.

http://www.warholstars.org/warhol/warhol1/warhol1f/chelsea.html

Presentation by Florian Schneider

My starting point is a series of images taken by surveillance cameras of the Spanish border police in the night of the 29th September 2005. Animated in fast motion the images show how hundreds of immigrants are climbing with self-made leddars across the three meter high fences that sorround the spanish enclave of Ceuta. In the following days the news around the globe were gabbling on a "storm on fortress europe".

Presentation by Jean Matthee:

Exploring the paradoxical stakes of the forces of transgression that launched Post Modernity and ending with the question - what does it mean at our historical time to cross a moral limit for a higher ethical destiny?

What would be the ethical condition for forbidden knowledge to be smuggled, incarnated in art practice, to allow for revivification and movement from the servile and minor forms of practice to a major illumination and an awakening to death.

El Topo (The Mole) is a 1970 Mexican allegorical, cult western movie and underground film, directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. Characterized by its bizarre characters and occurrences, use of maimed and dwarf performers, and heavy doses of Christian symbolism and Eastern philosophy, the film is about the eponymous character - a violent, black-clad gunfighter - and his quest for enlightenment.