Elfi Mikesch

"I like to mix all genres, play with them, proceeding in a montage-like manner and using very contradicting devices. It is not streamlined and is therefore often labelled experimental film. I prefer transgressions, even within contrasting genres."

Photo: Monika Treut (l.) and Elfi Mikesch (r.)

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Filmography

Filmography Elfi Mikesch (Director)

2024 KRIEG ODER FRIEDEN / Documentary film
2022 DIE STRASSE ALS ERZÄHLUNG / Documentary film
2014 FIEBER / Feature film
2012 ICH BIN EIN GEDICHT / Short film
2012 ROSAS WELT / Short film (Co-director, Director: Rosa von Praunheim)
2012 EVA MATTES / Short film (Co-director, Director: Rosa von Praunheim)
2011 MONDO LUX – Die Bilderwelten des Werner Schroeter / Documentary film
2011 JUDENBURG FINDET STADT / Documentary film
2008 ZISTERNEN – Istanbuls versunkene Paläste / Documentary film
2006 HAHNEMANNS MEDIZIN – Vom Wesen der Homöopathie / Documentary film
2002 DIE STRASSE DER TROUBADOURE / Documentary film
2001 MON PARADIS – Der Winterpalast / Documentary film
1999 DIE MARKUS FAMILY / Documentary film
1999 KA-HEY – Ich Grüsse Dich / Documentary film
1997 VERRÜCKT BLEIBEN, VERLIEBT BLEIBEN / Documentary film
1995 BOMBENWERFER (GEFÄHRLICHE ORTE) / Short film
1994 GEFÄHRLICHER ORT (GEFÄHRLICHE ORTE) / Short film
1994 DER FLUSS (GEFÄHRLICHE ORTE) / Short film
1993 SOLDATEN SOLDATEN (GEFÄHRLICHE ORTE) / Short film
1989 MAROCAIN / Feature film
1985 VERFÜHRUNG: DIE GRAUSAME FRAU /Feature film (Co-director: Monika Treut)
1983 DIE BLAUE DISTANZ / Short film
1983 DAS FRÜHSTÜCK DER HYÄNE / Short film
1982 MACUMBA / Feature film
1980 WAS SOLL’N WIR DENN MACHEN OHNE DEN TOD / Documentary film
1979 EXECUTION. A STORY OF MARY / Photo film
1978 ICH DENKE OFT AN HAWAII / Documentary film

Films in the program

War or Peace Elfi Mikesch GER 2024, 86 min The film tells the story of a planned transformation of the former military base Wünsdorf into an ecological campus.	MONDO LUX – The visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter Elfi Mikesch GER 2011, 97 min The life and work of this artist who was as acutely sensitive to beauty as to death, was determined by the forces of Eros and passion. Not...
Gefährliche Orte Elfi Mikesch GER 1993-1995, 74 min Four short films, filmed at former World War Two warzones which are still affected today. SOLDATEN SOLDATEN, GEFÄHRLICHER ORT, DER FLUSS...

Films in the program

War or Peace

Elfi Mikesch

GER 2024, 86 min

The film tells the story of a planned transformation of the former military base Wünsdorf into an ecological campus.

MONDO LUX – The visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

Elfi Mikesch

GER 2011, 97 min

The life and work of this artist who was as acutely sensitive to beauty as to death, was determined by the forces of Eros and passion. Not unfamiliar with the pitfalls of life, Werner Schroeter... more

Gefährliche Orte

Elfi Mikesch

GER 1993-1995, 74 min

Four short films, filmed at former World War Two warzones which are still affected today. SOLDATEN SOLDATEN, GEFÄHRLICHER ORT, DER FLUSS and BOMBENWERFER.

Films in the program

War or Peace

MONDO LUX – The visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

Gefährliche Orte