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The Woman in the Picture

Original title: Naine pildil

2017 | Documentary | Director: Priit Valkna

Laurentsius and Parikas. Two artists and two eras. One house. Cherchez la femme....

The artist Lauri Sillak, aka Laurentsius, starts painting for his new exhibition in an unusual place – a vacant wooden house in the heart of Tallinn, in a house that has belonged to the creator of the art of film and photography in Estonia, Johannes Parikas and his wife Lilli. The Parikas name truly set the fashion in the interwar Republic of Estonia. Several movie theatres in Tallinn, the Estonia Films film studio, a famous photography studio in Tallinn’s Old Town, the first Miss Estonia competition, portraits of prominent statesmen, and the photographing of all of Estonia were all connected to ...
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Out of the hole

Original title: August välja!

2013 | Documentary | Director: Peter Murdmaa

Leida Rammo, Estonian oldest performing actress, believes in miracles and passionately fights for the new building of Tallinn City Theatre.

"Does the geniuses have the right for their own theatre?" asks Leida Rammo (1924), the oldest performing theatre actress in Estonia. And she's got the answer as well: "Yes, they do!" Tallinn City Theatre has its own genius - the stage director Elmo Nüganen. However, he has no proper house for the theatre, nor a big stage and a theatre hall. It has to be pulled out from a hole, says the Grand Old Lady and prepares herself for conquering administrative agencies. The vigorous actress writes official letters, goes to meet the administratives of the city government, consults the editor-in-chief ...
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Witches Loaves

Original title (in Estonian): "Võlutari leivapätsid"

2012 | Students film, Short | Director: Nele Kirsipuu

The end of the 19th century, the fairytale Oldtown of Tallinn. This is the story of a jolly woman named Martha, a bakery and delicious cakes, a rude artist and some loaves of old bread and the saying, that things are not always what they seem to be.
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Ceramic artist Leo Rohlin

Original title: Keraamik Leo Rohlin

2010 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Igor Ruus

Portrait documentary by Igor Ruus about Estonian ceramic artist and art teacher Leo Rohlin.

Reo Rohlin (b. 1939), professor emeritus at the Estonian Academy of Arts, is an acknowledged Estonian ceramic artist and teacher. He has been awarded several art prizes, including Kristjan Raud Art Award in 1979. Rohlin has been teaching at the Estonian Academy of Arts for more than 50 years. He has written books on practical skills and professional information based on personal experience during a long period of creative and pedagogical activity.
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Life is a Flower

Original title: Elu on lill

2010 | Documentary | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

Two grand old masters, artists Evald Okas and photographer Kalju Suur, are recording the beauty of a naked woman.

Documentary about the meeting between two grand masters, artist Evald Okas and photographer Kalju Suur, during which they portrait a young model and have a discussion about life and art. 94-year-old Okas and 82-year old Suur are full of life and creative artists who get still inspired from the beauty of a woman. The two old artists run around the young naked woman as representing a philosophical vignette about the flourishing and withering of life, an existential etude with erotic attachments.
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Mees metsast ja mere äärest. Skulptor Jüri Ojaver

2009 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Brambat
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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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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Still Life with Wife

Original title: Vaikelu naisega

2006 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Kersti Uibo

Documentary on an aging couple amd the mundanity of their lives.

An unusual couple lives in an urban backwater. Married now for over a quarter of a century, their endless sniping never intensifies into the major quarrel that would resolve everything. This constant tension helps the man to paint and gives the woman a reason for living.
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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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