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Ester Mägi. Cadenza and motif

Original title: Ester Mägi. Kadents ja teema

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Vahur Laiapea

One of the most respectable lady of Estonian music, composer Ester Mägi, has written music about sixty years while having remained characteristically conservative.

Portrait documentary about Ester Mägi, composer and music teacher, tells about memory and music. Born in 1922, Mägi has composed music for nearly sixty years; her professional style has simultaneously been traditional and innovative, yet originally conservative. Ester Mägi recalls her life and contemplates on music. If she feels fine, she goes to the rehearsals and performances of her work and gives interpreters (or "consumers of sound" as she calls them) necessary advice and feedback. When Mägi was a little schoolgirl she told her teacher that she would become Miina Härma when she grows up. Well, instead she became Ester ...
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Monumentum with a bow tie

Original title: Monumentum kikilipsuga

2011 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Julia Guteva-Sillart, Jüri Sillart

Portrait documentary by Julia and Jüri Sillart about Enn Vetemaa - a writer, translator and composer; always an elegant man with a brilliant mentality.

Enn Vetemaa is a writer, translator, composer and chemist who opens up the source of her work and life through the prism of good-hearted, self-ironical humour. His close friends, artists and writers also recollect memories about the time spent together - they all left a considerable mark in Estonian literature, art and music. All of them started their creative career during the era of Khrushchev Thaw in 1960s. Enn Vetemaa's creative credo is the best characterized through his own words: "I write only about things I know. A true artist creates his or her own life in the first place. ...
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Poll

The Poll; The Poll Diaries

2010 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Chris Kraus

The feature film directed by German filmmaker Chris Kraus has been inspired by the memoirs of the director's great aunt of Baltic German origin, Oda Schaefer, where she talks about her youth in Estonia directly before the World War 1.

The feature film gives an unconventional description of a Baltic German estate in Estonia in early 20th century, in the crossroads of the German Empire and the Russian Empire. A beautiful yet menacing world is created by the ghostly manor in the sea, the scenery of that era and the soundtrack. The dramatic details as fetuses and human brain in spirit, operations and the bloodstained anarchist add angst and morbidness. For Estonian cinema audiences, it is especially important to witness the revival of the lost world of the Baltic Germans.
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Inge Tederi maailm

2007 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

Portrait documentary by Rein Raamat about Inge Teder, the legendary head of the Art Museum of Estonia.

Art historian Inge Teder (1931-2015) was the head of the Art Museum of Estonia for twenty five years. She started this job in mid-1960s that was a complicated period both for the society as well as for the art museum. Several classic artists from the first Republic of Estonia, especially art by expatriate Estonians, was inadvisable back then. The influences of formalism were seen in young artists' work at that time. As a clever diplomatist, Inga Teder could skilfully navigate the corridors of power and most of the times she got what she wanted. During Teder's leadership, the number of artwork ...
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Lembit Saarts

2006 | Documentary | Director: Rein Raamat, Helvi Raamat

Documentary by Rein Raamat about artist Lembit Saarts, the practitioner of the painting tradition of Pallas School.

The artist personality of Lembit Saarts (1924-2016) developed in Pallas Art School. The best part of its painting tradition has been transferred into Saarts's work, thus becoming one of the most poetic painters in Estonian art history. The documentary shows Lembit's friends, his contemporary Heldur Viires and writer Mart Kivastik from younger generation who share their stories about the painter. Saarts contemplates on life and art. Also, his partner Eeva Anti and art historian Tiiu Talvistu speak about Lembit. The film is about an artist who after returning to Estonia from Siberia in late 1950s found his artist identity in ...
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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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Two-Timing

Original title: Kaksikelu

2003 | Feature film, Short | Director: Raimo Jõerand

Short film directed by young documentalist Raimo Jõerand, telling about the marital relationships and playing with paradoxes.

When their marriage becomes a routine, a husband and a wife have a tradition to act as lovers who have not seen each other for a long time. So far, this masquerade has been refreshing and safe but now it is going too far and becomes fatally dangerous. The wife wants to get his husband killed, but when she calls for an assassin, it turns out that the assassin will be her own husband who secretly works as one. Does such situation have solutions?
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The Guf - A Cathedral of Unborn Souls

2001 | Animation, Puppet | Director: Jelena Girlin

I'll come, I'll get some experiences, I'll choose, I'll make mistake, I'll die, I'll come.

A Man comes into this world. He searches for something, runs across a Power, and gets shocked of it. He becomes convinced by the rightness of the Power. He is not able to separate right or wrong anymore. He makes mistake and dies, but the Goodness will give him a new trial - a new possibility to make mistake.
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Maire Männik, 54 rue du Montparnasse

Original title: Maire Männik, 54 rue du Montparnasse

2000 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Rein Raamat

Sculptor Maire Männik started her sculpture studies in Estonia but during the war she moved to France and her artwork was mostly created in Paris.

Estonian sculptor Maire Männik (1922-2003) started her art studies in Estonia; however, during the war she had to move to France and her artwork was created mainly abroad, in Paris. Filmmaker Rein Raamat has followed the artist working in her studio in Paris and sharing her thoughts. Commentaries by Harri Liivrand, Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar and French art historian Emmanuelle Corcellet-Prévost. The film also serves as a farewell to Marie Männik who passed away in 2003.
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Partituur neuroni genotüübile

1999 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peep Puks
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