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Ars Longa

2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Margit Lillak

Portrait documentary about the strange world of 32-year-old performance artist Sandra Jõgeva.

The documentary offers a glimpse into the upside-down world of 32-year-old performance artist Sandra Jõgeva. Sandra loves to break the rules both in life and art and applies her experence in some way in her art. She seems to prefer extremes everywhere and wishes to offer alternative standpoints as well as not to act up to expectations. Next to the hectic activities and talks by Sandra the film follows another life that seems to flow in perfect harmony in a totally different time-space: the life of Sandra's parents Malle Leis and Villu Jõgeva. For them, being an artist and preparing ...
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Toomik's Movie

Original title: Toomiku film

2008 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Marko Raat
Inge Tederi maailm

2007 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

Portrait documentary by Rein Raamat about Inge Teder, the legendary head of the Art Museum of Estonia.

Art historian Inge Teder (1931-2015) was the head of the Art Museum of Estonia for twenty five years. She started this job in mid-1960s that was a complicated period both for the society as well as for the art museum. Several classic artists from the first Republic of Estonia, especially art by expatriate Estonians, was inadvisable back then. The influences of formalism were seen in young artists' work at that time. As a clever diplomatist, Inga Teder could skilfully navigate the corridors of power and most of the times she got what she wanted. During Teder's leadership, the number of artwork ...
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Sweet idealists Signe and Arseni Mölder

Original title: Armsad idealistid Signe ja Arseni Mõlder

2007 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

Portrait documentary directed by Rein Raamat about artists' couple Signe and Arseni Mölder.

Portrait documentary records the creative journey of the artists' couple Signe (1918-2006) and Arseni (1919-2009) as well as views their role as intellectuals and art teachers. The film also studies the selectiveness and objectivity of artist memory, changes related to one's era in artist's work, and the human story of two artists. Contemporaries of the two artists recall Signe and Arseni as an inseparable couple taking part in art events and great exhibiton openings. The couple always arrived together and they turned out to be quite a unique archetype. Their unconcealed old age bodies, simple-minded expressions and their Sunday clothes ...
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Evi Tihemets

2006 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

Portrait documentary directed by Rein Raamat about Evi Tihemets, an outstanding graphic artist.

Evi Tihemets (1932) has been among the leading graphic artists in Estonia for a half of century. She has practised various techniques, most of all colourful lithography, soft-ground etching, intaglio printing techniques as well as mixed techniques. TIhemets has created miniature graphic art, portrays as well as monumental art, illustrated books and started silk printing in Estonia. Her work still surprises with creative joy and fresh ideas. Tihemets's artwork has been shown at more than thirty personal exhibitions that has given her several domestic and international art awards. The documentary tells the story about Estonian female artist with a long ...
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Lembit Saarts

2006 | Documentary | Director: Rein Raamat, Helvi Raamat

Documentary by Rein Raamat about artist Lembit Saarts, the practitioner of the painting tradition of Pallas School.

The artist personality of Lembit Saarts (1924-2016) developed in Pallas Art School. The best part of its painting tradition has been transferred into Saarts's work, thus becoming one of the most poetic painters in Estonian art history. The documentary shows Lembit's friends, his contemporary Heldur Viires and writer Mart Kivastik from younger generation who share their stories about the painter. Saarts contemplates on life and art. Also, his partner Eeva Anti and art historian Tiiu Talvistu speak about Lembit. The film is about an artist who after returning to Estonia from Siberia in late 1950s found his artist identity in ...
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Man from the City of Masters

Original title: Mees meistrite linnast

2006 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Brambat

Documentary portrait by Peeter Brambat about Ants VIidalepp, an elderly painter and professor emeritus.

Professional artist Ants Viidalepp (1921-2012) was 85 at the time of filming the documentary. He is known for younger generations mostly because of his books of recollections. At his exhibition "Fifty Viidalepps" held in Viinistu Art Museum in the spring of 2006, the artist showed his grotesque, folksy small-format oil paintings. Viidalepp's works often depict cartoonish funny stories where the characters wear festive clothes from the early 20th century whil looking simple-minded and happy. Every picture has its own strange everyday fabula just like the artist's endless recollective stories that he tells to accompany his work.
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The Pine. Graphic artist Tõnis Laanemaa

Original title: Mänd. Graafik Tõnis Laanemaa

2006 | Amateur films, Documentary | Director: Bruno Uustal

The documentary tells a story about a pine tree in Northern Estonia in Tõnis Laanemaa's artwork.

The group exhibition "Structures I" held in Draakon gallery in October 2004 included graphic prints and drawings by Tõnis Laanemaa, photographs by Mari-Liis Laanemaa and Pelle Kalmo and music by Taavi Laatsit. The exhibition is the first part of the long-term co-project by these four artists in order to discover and depict the structures of Estonian nature. All the artists went to East-Viru county and Kõrvemaa in order to derive inspiration. The documentary has been screened in Tõnis Laanemaa's personal exhibitions.
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Vaenlane no 1

2006 | Educational | Director: Tõnu Virve
Discover The Rich Space Around The Corner

Original title: Avasta rikas nurgatagune kosmoses

2005 | Documentary | Director: Jaan Tootsen

Mooste Artists's Guest Studio in Põlva county provides free accommodation for artists around the world - the only requirement for staying artists is to leave behind an artist's trace.

Artists around the world can stay for free in Mooste International Guest Studio in Põlva county, Estonia, on condition that the artist staying in the old manor will leave a creative trace in the local village life. Two different worlds meet in a small rural area: there are decayed buildings that once belonged to a collective farm next to the ensemble of manor buildings that have been preserved well and houses the well-equipped artist studio. The idealistic, bizarre world of artists is opposed by the rigidly conventional world view of the local people who prefer folk culture. Yet, the essence ...
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