Elfi Mikesch Movies

  • 1992
    Female Misbehavior

    Female Misbehavior

    Female Misbehavior

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    From feminist director and provocateur Monika Treut comes this eclectic collection of four short documentaries profiling unconventional women. One...

    Female Misbehavior
  • 1984
    Horror Vacui

    Horror Vacui

    Horror Vacui

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    Shot in a neo-expressionist style, the film is a satire on cults of any kind. The plot follows Frankie and Hannes, a young gay couple living in...

    Horror Vacui
  • 2015
    Tough Love

    Tough Love

    Tough Love

    6.22015HD

    Half documentary, half docu-drama about a German karate champion, who used to be a successful pimp...

    Tough Love
  • 2014
    Fever

    Fever

    Fever

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    It’s the early 1950s and little Franzi is growing up in the small Austrian town of Judenburg. Her oppressive family home is dominated by her...

    Fever
  • 2011
    Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

    Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

    Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

    5.52011HD

    Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi...

    Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
  • 1989
    Annie

    Annie

    Annie

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    The world according to Annie Sprinkle, renowned porn star and performance artist.

    Annie
  • 2024
    Krieg oder Frieden

    Krieg oder Frieden

    Krieg oder Frieden

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    Wünsdorf in Brandenburg was a military base for decades: first for the Prussians, then for the Wehrmacht and finally for the Red Army. At the...

    Krieg oder Frieden
  • 1979
    Execution: A Story of Mary

    Execution: A Story of Mary

    Execution: A Story of Mary

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

    Execution: A Story of Mary
  • 2001
    Warrior of Light

    Warrior of Light

    Warrior of Light

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    A feature-length documentary on Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, award-winning artist and human-rights activist who has gained international recognition for...

    Warrior of Light
  • 1997
    Daily Chicken

    Daily Chicken

    Daily Chicken

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

    Daily Chicken
  • 1988
    Anita – Dances of Vice

    Anita – Dances of Vice

    Anita – Dances of Vice

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

    Anita – Dances of Vice
  • 1999
    Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities

    Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities

    Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities

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    Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine,...

    Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities
  • 1998
    Life, Love & Celluloid

    Life, Love & Celluloid

    Life, Love & Celluloid

    5.81998HD

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

    Life, Love & Celluloid
  • 2007
    Six Dead Students

    Six Dead Students

    Six Dead Students

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    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...

    Six Dead Students
  • 1981
    Zechmeister

    Zechmeister

    Zechmeister

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    The authentic story of Maria Zechmeister who lived in an Upper Austrian village and was convicted of the murder of her husband. There was no evidence...

    Zechmeister
  • 1989
    Marocain

    Marocain

    Marocain

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    A woman reflects on her romantic relationship with a young moroccan years ago. Her daughter travels to Morocco, attempting to relive her mother's...

    Marocain
  • 1986
    A Virus Knows No Morals

    A Virus Knows No Morals

    A Virus Knows No Morals

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    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...

    A Virus Knows No Morals
  • 2017
    Survival in Berlin-Neukölln

    Survival in Berlin-Neukölln

    Survival in Berlin-Neukölln

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

    Survival in Berlin-Neukölln
  • 1983
    Bondage

    Bondage

    Bondage

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    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)....

    Bondage
  • 2001
    Die Markus Family

    Die Markus Family

    Die Markus Family

    02001HD

    This film tells the story of Markus Anatol Weisse, who, astonishingly enough, became an artist, in spite of being only very partially sighted. Markus...

    Die Markus Family