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Art and the Cold War. Esthetic Resistance

Original title: Kunst ja külm sõda

2024 | Documentary | Director: Sandra Jõgeva

A story about the relationship between independent Soviet art and the West.

A story about the relationship between independent Soviet art and the West. It recalls a time when art was larger and more important than life itself. But also a time, the like of which Estonian art has never seen and most likely will never see again. On one side, there are independent Soviet artists who lack not only the output but also the finances to complete their works. On the other side, there is the tempting West whose ambassadors (in the literal sense) take active interest in the Soviet underground art market. Selling one’s works to the West is a ...
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Circus

Original title in Estonian: Tsirkus

2022 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Joosep Ehasalu

Joosep Ehasalu’s third semester student short documentary ponders on what it means to be an artist, through a painting by his grandfather.

We all carry hell with us. The filmmaker’s hell exists on a canvas, which he studied carefully in childhood. The mystical picture has many names: Circus, Hell, Game at the Arena. Decades later he finds the painting again. The film unravels as loose ponderings about the plight of being an artist and touches upon the filmmaker’s personal demons. Can he see the painting in a new light?
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The Scandal

Original title in Estonian: Suur Skandaal

2020 | Students film, Short | Director: Anu Sildnik

Anu Sildnik’s short movie is talking about what will happen in that very moment when you put together one brassiere for a night characters from famous paintings. What will happen after artist have done last brushstroke and all the models and muses can finally move and go back to their ordinary lives. Do they accidentally know each ohter?

"The Scandal" is literally a picturesque journey, where selected works of art come to life and the moment captured in the interrupted picture survives. The work of 20th-century Estonian painters is united by the atmosphere of cafes and locales, and the film focuses on the characters in the works, whose relationships, encounters and passages live their lives smoothly.
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Long Live the Scandals!

Original title: Elagu skandaalid ja kollased sandaalid

2018 | Documentary | Director: Manfred Vainokivi

Documentary about Estonian contemporary artist Leonhard Lapin.

Leonhard Lapin is the classic and the enfant terrible of Estonian contemporary art, constantly followed by scandals, lewd legends and envious grumbling. Lapin confidently steps on the cornea of mediocrity, enjoying the situation to the fullest. Loved by his muses, the artist is not ashamed of his dalliances. He still has plenty at the grand old age of 70. The new Estonian film opens the doors to a disappearing Bohemianism, in which racy vocabulary reigns instead of political correctness.
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Baltics Contemporary Art Exhibition in Toronto 1/2

Original title: Balti nüüdiskunsti näitus Torontos 1/2

1992 | Amateur films, Newsreel, Other categories, Film footage | Director:

The first part of the exhibition introducing contemporary art in the Baltic States, held in John B. Aird gallery, Toronto. Close-up of Norton Dodge, art collector in the United States of America.

Art collector Norton Dodge in USA is talking (simultaneous translation) about his art collection at the art exhibition "Baltics Art During the Brezhnev Era" (1992) in Toronto. He was particularly interested in the contemporary unofficial art in the Soviet Union which he had started to collect already a few decades ago. Norton Dodge introduces the background information of the exhibition and talks about his professional career. Details of the artwork presented at the exhibition. The interviewer announces that Mr. Dodge will donate his art collection to Rutgers University in New Jersey. The filmed material has been documented for a CBC ...
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Baltics Art in Toronto

Title in Estonian: Balti kunst Torontos

1992 | Amateur films, Newsreel, Other categories, Film footage | Director:

Art historian Eda Sepp and artist Siim-Tanel Annus talk about the phenomena in Estonian art during the Brezhnev's era. The talk is held in the exhibition of Baltic contemporary art in Toronto.

Exhibition of modern art "Baltics Arts during Brezhnev Era" is opened in an art gallery in Toronto. Estonian art historian living in Canada, Eda Sepp (simultaneous translation), is giving explanations in front of the artwork by Malle Leis. According to Sepp, forms of the so-called contemporary art were not favoured during the Soviet era; sociocritical messages and meanings in the art of painting were hidden. Artist Siim-Tanel Annus (syncro) is talking (simultaneous translation) about the unofficial art in Estonia with the example of his abstract artwork and performance art pieces from 1980s. The latter disturbed officials in the field of ...
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Exhibition by Karin Luts in Tartu Art Museum in 1989

Title in Estonian: Karin Lutsu näitus Tartu Kunstimuuseumis 1989

1989 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Enn and Helga Nõu visiting Karin Luts' exhibition in Tartu Art Museum on March 28, 1989.

Enn and Helga Nõu visiting Karin Luts' exhibition in Tartu Art Museum on March 28, 1989. Museum worker tells about Karin Luts' creative career. Exhibition involves Luts' early paintins, costume design, printmaking and book illustrations.
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Professor Elango, Lembit Eelmäe and Permanent Exhibition of Estonian Art, 1989

Title in Estonian: Professor Elango, Lembit Eelmäe ja eesti kunsti püsinäitus 1989

1989 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

The Nõu family visiting Estonia on March 29, 1989 meets professor Aleksander Elango and Lembit Eelmäe in Tartu. Watching the permanent exhibition in Tartu Art Museum that is housed by the leaning Barclay de Tolly building.

The Nõu family visiting Estonia goes to Tartu on March 29, 1989. They meet professor Aleksander Elango and Lembit Eelmäe in the street. Later, they are watching the permanent exhibition of Estonian art in the leaning building of Barclay de Tolly where Tartu Art Museum is situated.
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Suurim näitus

1987 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Tiina Pork
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Kultuuriseminar

1979 | Documentary, Observation | Director: Ela Tomson
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