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Estonian Contemporary Art Siim-Tanel Annus

Title in Estnian: Eesti nüüdiskunst: Siim-Tanel Annus

1991 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Jaanus Nõgisto

Performance by Siim-Tanel Annus that forwards its message through text, images and music.

Siim-Tanel Annus was one of the main performance artists in Estonia in 1980-1993. In the film, the artist says that his attempt is to express something that cannot be forwarded through words or paper. The film full of images and associations aims at touching the borders between life and death. Keywords of this kind of creative activity are: blindfolded human being, burden, fire and rituals related to fire. The refined geometrical abstract figures in the early printed works by SIim-Tanel Annus express the endeavour to exit the daily routine towards the sky and the light. "Nine Mantras", a musical piece ...
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Estonian Foreign Minister Lennart Meriʹs interview on TV on 19.08.1991

Title in Estonian: Lennart Meri intervjuu Toronto telekanalile

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

During the August Coup in Estonia in 1991 Lennart Meri gives an interview to the TV News Channel CBC Toronto.

In the evening of the first day of the August Coop (August 19, 1991) Lennart Meri, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, gives an interview broadcasted from Helsinki to the Toronto CBC news channel. Meri reads out the inquiry by the government of the Republic of Estonia - the request to the peoples and governments in the world to support Boris Yeltsin in the political situation of that time. Reporter Terence McKenna asks Lennart Meri whether he is worrying about his family in Estonia at the moment - and Meri's answer to the question is that besides worrying about his family ...
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Estonians preparing to leave to the Toronto airport

Title in Estonian: Eestlased lahkuvad Toronto lennujaama

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Estonian choir says goodbye to Canadian Estonians in Toronto.

Estonian choir says goodbye to Canadian Estonians in front of Tartu College in Toronto after which they take a bus to Toronto airport. The film shows Vello Soots.
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Flags at Estonian House

Original title: Lipuehtes Toronto Eesti Maja

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Flags at Toronto Estonian House; the Republic of Estonia has regained its independence.

There are two Estonian blue-black-white national flags and a Canadian national flag with the red maple leaf waving in front of the Toronto Estonian House. The flags can be admired from several angles. The traffic flow and street noise in front of the building. The signboard "Estonian House / Eesti Maja" on the wall of the building. There is a store in Estonian House. Since Estonia regained its independence on August 20, 1991 there is the front page of newspaper "Vaba Eestlane" ("Free Estonian") on the wall of the store, declaring that the Republic of Estonia is again independent country, ...
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Food aid to Latvia

Title in Estonian: Toiduabi Läti elanikele

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Expatriate Latvians in Canada load the food aid packages to the shipping containers in order to send the aid to the Republic of Latvia that has recently regained its independence.

Expatriate Latvian men in Canada are busy loading humanitarian aid packages into the shipping containers in Toronto in order to send these to homeland. Organizer of the humanitarian aid for Latvians gives an interview where he comments that everything has succeeded. In three weeks, thousands of packages of humanitarian aid, including food, clothes etc., were collected that are now being sent to the relatives and acquaintances in Latvia.
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Helga and Enn Nõu Celebrate Their Birthdays on September 21, 1991

Title in Estonian: Helga ja Enn Nõu ühine sünnipäevapidu 21.09.1991

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Helga and Enn Nõu celebrate their birthdays on September 21, 1991.

Helga and Enn Nõu celebrate their birthdays in their home Askvägen. Among the guests there are daughters Laine and Liia, son Heino, Enn's parents Joosep and Alide and other family members. First they talk in Swedish, then in Estonian. Enn Nõu says that Estonia is an independent country now.
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Interview with Küllo Arjakas in Toronto

Original title: Küllo Arjakase intervjuu Torontos

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Interview with Küllo Arjakas on the events taken place on January 13th, 1991 in Vilnius.

Küllo Arjakas spends a longer period of time in Canada and USA. He is being interviewed by a TV reporter, they discuss the events that took place on January 13, 1991 in Vilnius. The interviewer wonders why the conflict has increased, whether Estonian people are afraid of the situation and how Estonia will defend itself. Arjakas responds even three times to the question how Canada could help the Baltic states. After the interview the reporter and Küllo Arjakas talk about visiting Russia. Representative of Latvian press room faxes a special announcement to newspapers from Latvian National Federation in Canada.
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Interview with a Latvian Canadian mother whose daughter is in Riga during the barricades

Original title: Intervjuu Kanada läti emaga, kelle tütar on Riias barrikaadidel

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel, Other categories, Film footage | Director:

TV interview with a Latvian Canadian mother whose daughter happened to in the middle of the tragic events in Riga while going on a trip to Latvia.

Latvian mother contacts her daughter, who has taken a trip to Latvia, on the phone. The daughter happens to get into the middle of the tragic events in central Riga where the Soviet OMON commando started to shoot the unarmed protesters on barricades on January 20, 1991. Among the protesters was also her daughter. Naturally, mother's worry for her daughter's safety was extremely big, fortunately she made it. Similarly to the majority of expatriate Latvians in Canada, mother is passionately supporting the restoration of independence of the Republic of Latvia. Photographs of the mother and daughter.
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Ivo Linna and Alo Mattiisen's performance in Toronto

Title in Estonian: Ivo Linna ja Alo Mattiisen esinevad Torontos

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Group singing of expatriate Estonians in Toronto, Canada.

Joined choir of Estonians sing the song "I am an Estonian and I will remain one" accompanied by a phonogram. The singers hold national flags in their hands. With the applause Ivo Linna and Alo Mattiisen stand up in the hall and vow to the audience. Ivo Linna sings the song again, accompanied by Alo Mattiisen on the synthesizer. In the end, the national anthem of Estonia will be sung.
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Jaak Lõhmus in Estonian Home in Uppsala on March 24, 1991

Title in Estonian: Jaak Lõhmus Uppsala Eesti Kodus 24.03.1991

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Jaak Lõhmus, film critic and screenwriter, meets expatriate Estonians in Uppsala Estonian Home on March 24, 1991.

Jaak Lõhmus meets expatriate Estonians in Uppsala Estonian Home on March 24, 1991. He talks about his work as a screenwriter with the documentary "The Escape" (directed by Andres Sööt). The film is about the escaping of Estonians and Estonian Swedes from the Soviet forces to Sweden and Germany in 1943-1944.
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