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Heldur

2017 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Karol Ansip

Shortly before Estonia regained its independence, a painting studio came into being, a studio that was guided by principles of painting that dated back to the First Republic. Heldur Viires, the leader and teacher of the school, has been passing on his knowledge of colour and light for thirty meaningful years.

An authentic Pallasian (disciple of Pallas Higher Art School), Heldur Viires is not just admired but also loved and cared for by his students. A true master who continued sharing his painterly advice even at the age of 89, when he still visited the studio every afternoon to have a look at the nudes painted that morning. An old-school gentleman whose students gather together every year on the 24th of February to raise a glass of sparkling wine to the Estonian Republic. A vigilant spirit who has shared the path with Ülo Sooster, Henn Roode, Kaja Kärner, Lembit Saarts and ...
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Jaanus with two heads

Original title: Kahe peaga Jaanus

2009 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Rein Raamat

Documentary by Rein Raamat about Jaan Vares, acknowledged Estonian sculptor and a long-time rector of the Estonian Academy of Arts.

During thirty years, sculptor Jaan Vares (1927) formed and polished the Estonian State Art Institute into a well-functioning mechanism where under the guidance of best lecturers and teachers several generations of Estonian artists emerged. Despite the strict dictates and prohibitions of the Soviet era, Vares was wise enough to make advantage of these orientations in order to develop Estonian art and to complete his life's work. In addition, he was able to create a whole gallery of interesting portrait sculptures placed in his studio in Merivälja. The documentary introduces Jaan Vares's life and work as well as describes his diverse ...
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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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Man from the City of Masters

Original title: Mees meistrite linnast

2006 | Portrait, Documentary | 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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Voldemar Väli

2003 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Rein Raamat
Episodes from the lives of artists in Tartu in 1985-1989

Original title: Episoode Tartu kunstnike ja kunsti elust 1985-1989

1989 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

Documentary by Andres Sööt about the artists and art life in Tartu at the end of 1980s.

There is no storyline, intrigue nor culmination, neither a beginning nor an end in this documentary that makes it rather a collection of sporadic images about people who disappear and vanish for good. With his sensitive eye, Andres Sööt has documented various generations of artists in Tartu both in nature and in their studios, at exhibitions, in meetings and gatherings.
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Efraim Allsalu

1977 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt
Nõukogude Eesti

1968 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Vladimir Parvel
Nõukogude Eesti

1967 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Vladimir Parvel
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Nõukogude Eesti

1964 | Newsreel 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Vitali Gorbunov