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Jaan Klysheiko

Original title: Jaan Klõšeiko

2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Eve Ester, Igor Ruus

Portrait documentary about Jaan Klysheiko, a legendary photo artist, book and magazine designer.

Jaan Klysheiko (1939) is a phenomenon in Estonian culture. He has graduated from the department of painting at the Estonian State Art Institute in 1960s; after which he entered the field of journalism and he became a book designer. His true passion, however, is photography and he has regularly recorded the cultural events in Estonia: Klysheiko's photo archives includes several thousands of negatives. The extremely jovial and bohemian artist with great sense of humour takes the film crew to a walk around the Old Town of Tallinn and to show the places related to his work and life while talking ...
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Mare Vint

2005 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Anri Rulkov

Mare Vint, an acknowledged graphic and drawing artist, opens up the background of her sensitive artwork related to her personal exhibition "Selected views".

Mare Vint (b. 1942) discovered her artist style, a highly refined way of drawing, already in the year of 1970. Vint has depicted nature and parks with the aesthetic quality and slightly metaphysical moods. The artist regularly exhibits her litographs, serigraphs, works made with indian ink and coloured pencils both in Estonia and abroad. Her works belong to the collections of several art museums all over the world. The documentary depicts Mare Vint before and after the opening of her personal exhibition "Selected views" (2004) when the artist is working with her drawings and commenting on her creative process.
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Travelling Potters

Original title: Potisetod tulevad

2004 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Urbla

Documentary about the cheerful journey of potters on horse carriages along the Seto region in Estonia to the Hanseatic Days in Tartu, South Estonia.

Cheerful and fast-paced documentary about the potters from Seto region having a jolly journey on horse carriages through Setoland to the Hanseatic Days in Tartu. In summers of 2002 and 2003, boys loaded the horse carriages full of Seto pottery and rode with the cartload from village to village as ancient Seto people. They did so in order to sell or exchange pottery items for food, accommodation and clothes, to acknowledge the presence of Seto people and look for the traces of former Seto potters as well as to collect the folklore and traditions.
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Voldemar Väli

2003 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat
Enn Johannes

2002 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

Portrait documentary by Rein Raamat about Enn Johannes, an acknowledged metal artist.

Estonian metal artist Enn Johannes (b. 1936) designs and creates medals for the laureates of Kristjan Raud Art Prize and Konrad Mägi Award. The artist and art teacher in his best creative form is forced to give up his apartment in Tallinn and job at the Estonian Academy of Arts; he currently lives in a desert village on the island of Hiiumaa where the only residents are a few elderly people. The annual commemorative medals for state awards of culture and sports come from the same small village of Hiiumaa island where Enn Johannes leads his freelancer life together ...
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The Bronze Age

Original title: Pronksiaeg

2002 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Brambat

Documentary about the sculpture exhibition "The Bronze Age" that took place in Tallinn Art Hall in 2001.

Bronze as a material became prevalent in Estonian sculpture during the years 1970s-1980s. Numerous public sculptures and individual artworks were completed in bronze. During these restricted decades, the sculptors' work confidently followed the footsteps of Modernism. The majority of the artworks that were exhibited in "The Bronze Age" in Tallinn Art Hall in 2001 have been stored in various buildings of the Art Museum of Estonia and Tartu Art Museum; younger generation of Estonian artists know these works only as reproductions. "The Bronze Age" that portrayed works and artist personalities by 25 sculptors is a unique catalogue-documentary introducing the creative ...
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Lemming Nagel

2001 | Documentary | Director: Rein Raamat

Artist Lemming Nagel uses the means of painting in order to create an original, colourful world full of fantasy out of seemingly useless objects.

Artist Lemming Nagel (b. 1948) has been always been a notorious artist in a positive sense - since the mid-1990s, he has integrated mixed media in his work and created collage and assamblage art and started physical analysis of the art of painting. Nagel has presented fragments based on various different types of logic on canvas - he has made holes in canvas, referred to the symbiosis of several (fictional) worlds, moved to the world of absurd. Lemming Nagel is less social than before, yet his art has become socially more sensitive.
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Kadrioru loss

2000 | Documentary | Director: Jüri Suurevälja
Laurentsius

Original title: Eesti kunst. Laurentsius

1999 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Jaanus Nõgisto

The documentary commissioned by the Estonian Artists' Association gives a short overview about the artwork of Estonian painter Laurentsius.

Short film about Laurentsius was made in 1999 when the artist's work genuinely expressed the art of MTV generation according to art critics. Laurentsius has been called the painter of apocalypse and a cynical visionary Teda on nimetatud meie aja apokalüpsisemaalijaks ja küüniliseks visionääriks, kes valdab perfektselt maalitehnikat. Laurentsius (Lauri Sillak) pälvis 1996. aastal koos oma toonase koostööpartneri Tommyga Vaal galerii aastapreemia. Eesti Kunstnike Liidu tellimusel valminud videofilm annab lühiülevaate Laurentsiuse loomingust.
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The company of Enn Põldroos' gentlemen

Original title: Enn Põldroosi härrasmeeste seltskond

1998 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

The exhibition of Enn Põldroos' paintings "31 gentlemen" held in Tallinn Art Hall gallery.

Enn Põldroos has portrayed numerous intellectuals and public figures while concentrating on depiction of their individuality and expressiveness. Enn Põldroos has been called the painter of men and human relationships. The artist himself has admitted that painting portraits has always been his secret love. At his exhibition "31 gentlemen" (1998) the artist presented portraits he had painted in 1958-1997. The portraits are commented by the artist, art historians and several people who were portrayed.
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