Elfi Mikesch Movies

Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells...

Nurses on the night shift roll dice to see which AIDS patient will die next. The owner of a gay bathhouse gets Kaposi's Sarcoma but tries to keep his...

The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart.

After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin.

Interview with Christoph Schlingensief on his films. Including many film clips.

This film is in effect a slideshow of exquisite single photographic images in sparkling black and white, representing Mikesch’s own version of...

A young woman is fed up with the usual consumer's television and begins to make her own television, or more correctly, closevision. She is now a...

Bondage was made from, among other things, footage Monika Treut filmed in New York with women of the LSM(Lesbian Sex Mafia/ Lesbian Sado-Masochists)....

The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.

Rosa von Praunheim, the director of the film, parodies himself and his time as a professor at the Film School in Potsdam Babelsberg, where he taught...

German director Werner Schroeter invited his favourite opera singers to a 13th century abbey near Paris. There was no pre-planned action. There was...

A retrospective look at the making of "World on a Wire".

Portrait made for the 70th birthday of Rosa von Praunheim by his close collaborator.

About Stefan Stricker, who calls himself Juwelia and has been running a gallery on Sanderstraße in Berlin Neukölln for many years. Every...

Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber, a nude art dancer/drug...

Semi-documentary film about the everyday life of a 16-year-old schoolgirl in Berlin who lives with her single mother on the outskirts of West Berlin....

Two sisters try to manage life alone after their mother's accident.

Elfi Mikesch accompanies Werner Schroeter in staging a tribute to Lautréamont in Berlin.

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.