Execution. A Study of Mary

The drama of a woman who attempted a kind of liberal emancipation in a time of upheaval but got caught in the snares of men. A study of Mary Stuart. The contradictoriness and the variety of material with which the person of Mary was surrounded over time gave me the idea of trivialising this "royal story". I compressed the information into images of passion, power, love, pain and death. EXECUTION is a photographic film of single images which alludes to the ambivalence of the two complementary media of film and photography. - Elfi Mikesch

Elfi Mikesch, a cinematographer and director who has won numerous awards for her visual imagery, is considered one of the early pioneers of feminist-queer film. In her documentary work, she focuses on people and projects that fall outside the bounds of the norm, telling their stories of the search for identity and individual self-realization.