Cinema: Estonian Animation 85! The first ones and the last ones.
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The Adventures of Juku The Dog is the first Estonian experimental animated short film written and directed by Voldemar Päts, produced by Aleksaner Teppor and animation by cartoonist Elmar Jaanimägi. For the film about 5000 drawings were made. Out of the total of 180 meters of shot film stock about 100 have survived. The soundtrack for the silent film was provided by Records of the Tormolen Co. Parlophon. In total 2 films in the series were attempted, the second one called The Adventures of Juku on Earth and Water was not completed and has not survived.
After the Great Depression and WWII hit Estonia, the first professional puppetoon animation studio in Estonia Nukufilm was established by Elbert Tuganov in 1958 and a traditional cel animation studio Joonisfilm by Rein Raamat in 1971. In modern times the most known Estonian Animation Director is Priit Pärn, the winner of Grand Prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 1998.
Little Peter’s Dream (1958)
A Curious Film Camera(1971)
"I'm a champion of filming, I have a film inside of me. I just don't need eyes, the lens goes in front of me!"
Water Carrier(1972)
Taking Off (1973)
Out of Internal Worlds (2016)
A fly rubs its hands. A man and a woman, inside and outside, balance within them and between them. The fly flies. Snails swing. The fly flies.
Bird Flu (2016)
Story about a man and a snake, an alcoholized penguin and the disappearance of birds. Story about an apple tree and apples, about roots and rootlessness. Story about a paradise and about the expel from it.
Film screenings are held in educational purposes – brief commentary before and discussion after the film. English subtitles, free entry!