A historical fantasy that intertwines 19th-century Estonian village life with ancient Ukrainian mythology, following Elo as she searches for her suddenly vanished husband.
An experimental found footage melodrama composed entirely out of film footage shot in Soviet Estonia from 1960 until 1969.
The exercise film is based on Ernst Hermann Schlichting's painting "Livonian Peasant Wedding".
Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place.
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao-Zi.