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Orchidelirium. Rip-Off

Original title: Orhideliirium. Rip-Off

2022 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Kristina Norman

The maid embarks on a journey that requires cunning and magic to become an artist and gain the privileges of a lady of the manor.

In the film the intimate tension between a lady of the manor and her servant keen to mimic her mistress is embodied by a pair of Doppelgängers. The performance of the two women becomes increasingly intimate, embodying and eroticising the tension between the colonizer and the colonized and the entanglement of their fantasies and desires. The film is set in various manor houses in Estonia, the architectural legacy of foreign colonial power. Prior to the collapse of the Russian empire the manors used to belong to the German-speaking nobility that had dominated the Baltics for centuries. In the film, the ...
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Fun For Five Females

Original title: F.F.F.F. läheb laiali

2005 | Documentary | Director: Marko Raat

Documentary directed by Marko Raat portrays the jewellery artists and their artist group F.F.F.F. (Fun For Five Females) that was active for almost ten years. The film attempts to investigate the reasons for the breakup of the group.

In the first week of February in 2005 the mailboxes of those belonging to the art world got the following message: "The most famous Estonian metal girl group F.F.F.F will quit! After their last performance held in Ireland, January 2005, group F.F.F.F. (members: Kristi Paap, Kaire Rannik, Berit Teeäär, Ketli Tiitsar and Maria Valdma) decided that there was no point of continuing the same way." The documentary portrays the artists who belonged to the group F.F.F.F (Fun for Five Females) that was active for almost ten years as well as opens up the reasons for their breakup. As it goes ...
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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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Symphonietta of dolomite

Original title: Dolomiitsümfoniett

1975 | Documentary | Director: Arnold Altmäe

Documentary by Arnold Altmäe about artist Mare Mikof who is creating a dolomite sculpture.

Sculptor Mare Mikof goes to Kaarma quarry to choose dolomite megaliths for her future sculptures. So begins the creative process. The filmmakers follow Mikof's first acquaintance with the rock - it starts from a kind touch by the artist's hand to extremely difficult hammering action. However, the most interesting creative process is not visible in the film - that is when the sculpture starts to have a specific appearance and form. At the end of the film one can see other sculptures created by Mare Mikof.
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