Name: Film: MONDO LUX – The visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter by Elfi Mikesch
Start: 2026-03-12T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-12T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Goethe-Institut London

$Film: MONDO LUX \u2013 The visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter by Elfi Mikesch$

Complementing the ICA’s retrospective of Werner Schroeter, we present Elfi Mikesch’s sensitive and inspiring portrait of the director.
About this Event

Mikesch served as cinematographer on several of his films and was personally closely connected to his world. In April we will be showing a number of Elfie Mikesch’s own highly original films.
Over a period of four years – from 2006 to 2010 – Elfi Mikesch followed Werner Schroeter with her camera. These were the years from his cancer diagnosis until his death, years filled with creative drive and a deep passion for film, theatre, and photography. Mikesch offers an intimate insight into Schroeter’s work on projects such as his theatre production Antigone / Elektra (2009), the preparations for the exhibition of his photographic work Autrefois & Toujours (2009), as well as the intense dubbing sessions for his final film Diese Nacht (This Night, 2008).
Numerous excerpts from Werner Schroeter’s films – from Eika Katappa to Diese Nacht – trace the colourful spectrum of his cinematic oeuvre. Music permeates this space of remembrance. Biographical connections and his passionate relationship with film, opera, and theatre become as visible as his bonds with the people with whom he worked, lived, and shared friendships – among them Isabelle Huppert, Rosa von Praunheim, Wim Wenders, and Ingrid Caven.
Germany 2011, colour, 97 mins, With English subtitles.
Directed by Elfi Mikesch. With Werner Schroeter, Almut Zilcher, Pascale Schiller, Dörte Lyssewski, Anne Ratte-Polle, Isabelle Huppert, Rosa von Praunheim, Monika Keppler, Wim Wenders, Alberte Barsacq, Peter Kern, Ingrid Caven, Wolf Wondratschek, Paulo Branco, Digne Meller Marcovicz, Juliane Lorenz, Christian Holzfuss, Heikko Deutschmann, Rufus Beck, Alexis Bug, Julia Kamenik, Alexandra Kunz, Lisa-Marie Landgraf, Roland Techet, Oleg Zhukov.

Look out for the films in the Werner Schroeter retrospective shot by Elfi Mikesch: Poussières d'amour (Abfallprodukte der Liebe) tbc, The Rose King (Der Rosenkönig), Deux, and Malina. For Salomé she did the make-up and she took the photographs on the set of Palermo oder Wolfsburg.