In 2020, the filmmakers Lucía Palacios and Dietmar Post came up with the idea of establishing the CHARLES WILP ARCHIVE. The archive releases and looks after the existing recordings by and featuring Charles Wilp. Charles Paul Wilp (Witten 1932 – Düsseldorf 2005) was a German advertising designer, artist, photographer and filmmaker. Wilp developed some of the most important campaigns of the 1960s and 1970s, among his clients he had Pirelli, Volkswagen and Afri-Cola. He worked with The Monks, Marianne Faithfull, Amanda Lear, Donna Summer, Marsha Hunt, Petula Clark, Yves Klein, Joseph Beuys, Armani and Christo, among many others. Charles Wilp is featured in the documentary films "Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback" and "Donna Summer: Hot Stuff".