Elfi Mikesch

Filmmaker, cinematographer and teacher, she was born in Judenburg (Austria) and has lived in Berlin for sixty years. She worked as a camerawoman for several directors involved in feminist and queer activism such as Rosa von Praunheim, Lilly Grote and Monika Treut, among others, and in 1984 she founded the independent production company Hyena Films with the latter. Passionate about Poe and E.T.A. Hoffmann, the former’s tale The Masque of the Red Death inspired her… (więcej)