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Black Ceiling

Original title: Must lagi

2007 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis, Janno Põldma, Heiki Ernits, Ülo Pikkov, Priit Tender, Priit Pärg, Olga Marchenko, Mati Kütt

Estonia’s first animated selection of poetry. Seven short films full of feeling illustrating works by Estonian poets.

Seven animated poems. The Black Ceiling Project is a vision of 7 classic Estonian poems by 7 Estonian animators. Each two-minute film illustrates a more or less well-known text exactly the way the author of the film sees fit. The idea of the project is to create something new and unexpected by combining two branches of art. It is an experiment that unites visual poetry, or animation, with actual poetry.
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I Feel a Lifelong Bullet in the Back of My Head

Original title: Ma kuklas tunnen eluaegset kuuli

2007 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Priit Pärn, Olga Marchenko

A bullet in the back of the head loses its freshness with time.

A bullet in the back of the head loses its freshness with time. The person feeling the bullet loses the sharpness of the feeling. Even while sleeping. The person is ecstatic.
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Lights in The Night

Original title: Tuled öös

2007 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Heiki Ernits

A poem with a melancholy undertone about solitude and longing.

A poem with a melancholy undertone about solitude and longing. We see a row of windows of an apartment building. Individual windows at first – some windows are dark, some are open and people bustle about, living, being born, dying, splitting up, rejoicing, being sad. We briefly see around twenty tiny incidents in the lives of various people – as much as can be seen through an open window or an opening in the curtains. This is perhaps only a completely insignificant and random moment, but nevertheless, if we imagine further, we can guess what might ...
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Substantia Stellaris

Original title: Substantia stellaris

2007 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Mati Kütt

Ilmar Laaban’s poetry written in the Cosmos scatters like filings, builds up in our senses and spreads out in our bodies as stellar substance.

Ilmar Laaban’s poetry written in the Cosmos scatters like filings, builds up in our senses and spreads out in our bodies as stellar substance.
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The Very Last Cigarette

Original title: Viimane sigaret

2007 | Animation, Cartoon | Director: Kaspar Jancis

There is a Man in a squalid basement flat and a Woman in a fancy resort hotel in the Alps. They share a shattered relationship.

There is a Man in a squalid basement flat and a Woman in a fancy resort hotel in the Alps. They share a shattered relationship. The Man is in the homestretch of his degeneration. The Woman in on the last rung of the ladder to the top. Both are embittered. Today they both smoke their last cigarettes, the Man prior to his planned suicide, and the Woman planning to quit smoking. Deus ex Machina intervenes. The Man’s expected suicide fails due to his inner uncertainty. The Woman self-confidently races down the mountain into an ...
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Brave New World

Original title: Hea uus ilm

2006 | Documentary, Portrait, Problem oriented | Director: Jaan Tootsen

It's a film about consumerism, about people, who have lost themselves in a world of things.

It's a film about consumerism, about people, who have lost themselves in a world of things. Artur Tavere, who graduated from Oxford University couple of years ago, launched Tallinn Recycling Center, which is one of the strongest opposing poles to various shopping centers of the city. How to gather things that people have used? How to be happy with little?
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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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The Curse of Werewolf

Original title: Libahundi needus

2005 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Rainer Sarnet

The first full-length feature film directed by Rainer Sarnet for the 100th anniversary of Estonian professional theatre. The film tells the story about staging the play "Werewolf" written by August Kitzberg in Tartu Vanemuise Theatre throughout the 20th century, while bringing together the present and the past and offering the characters to experience eternity.

Liina is a young actress at Vanemuise Theatre who gets Tiina's part in the new, postmodernist version of the play "Werewolf" by August Kitzberg. The theatre is haunted and the rehearsals seem to be cursed, artificial blood becomes real blood. The play won't be complete before the murder mystery is unsolved - and Liina is being taken back to the old theatre legends and intrigues of the past century.
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On the Edge of the New World

Original title: Vahtsõ ilma veere pääl

2004 | Documentary | Director: Peeter Brambat
Springtime Wonderband

Original title: Sensatsiooniline Tartu Kevadbänd

2004 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Madli Lääne

A band from Tartu, led by PhD students in biology, gives a concert in the biggest shopping mall in the capital to promote environmental-friendly way of living. The "eco-punks" as they call themselves in Estonian, propose that creative self-expression could well be a substitute for meaningless consumerism.