architecture
Architect Raine Karp has designed some of the most monumental buildings in Estonia. Yet he himself says that he does not shape cityscapes or create art — he simply solves problems. This film takes the viewer on a journey into Raine’s world of ideas and his creative process.
Nestled in an ancient forest by the sea, the space creates a surreal environment: Are you inside or outside? Is it your movement or the nature around you? Does the architectural structure exist or is it just an illusion?
From a small-town garage to become country's top architect!
Sebastian, working as a store clerk, finds his ordinary workday shaken up when he meets Silo, a free-spirited wanderer. Together, they smoke weed and dream of a one-way ticket to Brazil.
Artyom is a 25 year old architect who started sewing. Whether this will be another fleeting idea in his head or whether it will become something more serious, even Artyom himself does not yet know, but he is deeply immersed in a new hobby.
A 32 year old architect renovates her apartment as an act of catharsis to resolve her emotional turmoil.
The author of the film researches the symmetry of his own face through his parents.
In the documentary film we try to explore how difficult it is to carry out a bigger vision that would update Estonian urban space.
The film tells the autobiographical story of an author who wanted to change her place of residence in the hope of changing herself and her life. But it turned out that the country does not change anything if the soul remains the same.
To create a new, you have to give up the old. As a result of the dust, physical and dirty work of construction workers the building of the former textile factory Rauaniit gives birth to a modern Art Academy.
"You" are trying to get in touch with "your inner self", but it turns out you speak different languages and turns on the mode of self-destruction.
Regular morning ritual gets interrupted by a stampede.
This film portraits Leonhard Lapin, a creator born in an Estonian small town called Räpina in the 1950s, who becomes one of the most outstanding avant-garde artists on the Soviet Estonian art and architecture scene. The film also reveals the creator’s worldview, beliefs and rebellious nature.
A documentary about stage worker team in Latvian National theatre.
A celebration of the elements of nature at the pilgrimage house of Vastseliina and the unique influence of these elements as a part of human interactions in the house.
Architectural film describes the process of exploration, as well as the dents, twists and turns, and triumphs of research.
Architecture film shot on location at Kuke Guesthouse.
Architecture film by ChengHan Lin and Haendel Gabriel Guerrero Solis. Taking the idea of a church like a place where people go to look for something as a metaphor, 'No stone unturned' portrays through the architecture of the place a journey in quest for something as well.
Vishal Vittal’s architecture film about Estonian National Museum is discussing freedom of speech and censorship, while reflecting the change in people who transfered from Soviet Union to Independent Estonia.
Architecture film “Home” by Israel Bañuelos is introducing an architecture project called “KODA” showing how a person moving into new space can turn it into a home.
Architecture Awakens! Animated magical realism, l´etat naturel!
Erasmus Movie Masters' architecture film about the National Library of Estonia.
"My Name Boris" is an architecture film focusing on the grain elevator building in Tallinn, Estonia.
Estonian activists, businesswomen and volunteers decided to support one village in Northern Ghana while bringing together the handicraft skills of Ghanaians, enterprisingness of Estonians and Western market. So it turned out that the baskets woven by Ghanaian village women would sell in Estonia and the butter produced from shea nut growing in African savannas would find buyers in USA.
Vahur Laiapea has recorded Estonians' projects in Afghan and the local life.
This is an advertisement for the Estonian National Library, including various shorts of the unique interior as well as a saxophonist, violin player, skateboarder and a modern dancer.
It's an arhitecture short film about Hedon Spa.
Documentary by Peeter Brambat about architect Toomas Rein.
Ilo Jaik-Riedberg, daughter of writer Juhan Jaik, is the guide to take the viewers around Paris.
Documentary by Marko Raat about the wooden architecture of a city and about the possibility of preservation of such heritage in contemporary living environment.
Documentary by Andres Sööt about Soviet architecture and buildings in Tallinn, equipped with the commentaries by former top architects.
An ancient Khanty bear feast ritual, estimated to be about 3000 years old, was filmed in Western Siberia, in Khantia-Mansia, at the Agan River, a tributary of the Ob, in September 1985 and in August 1988. Participants in the ceremony held at a Khanty summer camp included singers of old songs who travelled to the ritual place from several hundred kilometres away.
Documentary commissioned by the committee of construction of USSR introducing the Estonian national stone – limestone.