The Goethe-Institut London, together with Club des Femmes and in cooperation with the ICA, presents a selection of films directed by Elfi Mikesch.

Best known for her work as a cinematographer with Rosa von Praunheim, Monika Treut, Friederike Pezold, Heinz Emigholz, Cynthia Beatt, and Teresa Villaverde, Mikesch has also developed a uniquely genre-blending body of work as a director, which has had a significant influence on feminist and queer cinema.

The programme includes three short films, her experimental feature Macumba, the hybrid documentaries I Often Think of Hawaii and What Shall We Do Without Death, the autobiographically inspired features Marocain and Fever, as well as Seduction: The Cruel Woman, co-directed with Monika Treut and now regarded as a queer-feminist cult classic. All the works except the more recent Fever (2014) have been restored by the Deutsche Kinemathek and the Hamburg Kinemathek (Seduction).

Find out more about the full programme here - https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?event_id=27250498

About Elfi Mikesch - https://www.filmportal.de/en/person/elfi-mikesch_efc121b0629a6c3fe03053d50b3736f2