Mind the Gap
Verrückt bleiben - verliebt bleiben
Germany
1997
89 Min
Color
German
Synopsis
Mind the Gap is a documentary about Torsten Riccardo Engelholz, 30 years of age, “mentally handicapped”, who was kept locked in a dark room by his parents for a great part of his childhood. He was later put into psychiatric care. Torsten Ricardo is a manic Underground rider and spends all his spare-time riding the tube. He is also a passionate and talented painter and an actor in a professional theatre group. He has the desire to move in a constant flow of perception. This (cinematically very productive) passion and his great interest in German and Berlin history enable the viewer to get an intensive insight into Torsten Ricardo’s view on the world, which constantly moves between so-called “normality” and his exceptional condition. The film explores the universe of a very special person in a very sensual way and deals with subjects that are essential. Torsten Riccardo holds up a mirror to us. —http://www.german-films.de
Director
Elfi Mikesch
Elfi Mikesch was born in 1940 as a daughter of a projectionist in Austria.
Training as a photographer, she became very dissatisfied with the teaching time, and so began to paint pictures and met the painter Fritz Mikesch, whom she married 1960. After training, they go together to Berlin in 1964. There, she meets Rosa von Praunheim.
In 1971, she has worked on film by Rosa von Praunheim: Passions. In 1972 she took over the mask and costume for Werner Schroeter’s film Salome.
In 1984 she founded the company in Hamburg Monika Treut hyena / Hyaena-turned-film production and together with Monika Treut made the movie Seduction. Besides her experimental films, she also filmed for ZDF documentary commissioned works, such as I often think of Hawaii, for which she received the 1978 National Film Award in the category of ‘feature-length film with no story line’.
As a cinematographer she worked with Rosa von Praunheim, Werner Schroeter… read more
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