Non-Competitive Programs | EKA presents: Contemporary Estonian Animation
MEGOGO

7-11.09

online on MEGOGO geoblocked to Estonia and Ukraine

A collection of the best films from the animation department of the Estonian Academy of Arts, one of the leading animation schools in the Nordic and Baltic countries, which specializes in the development and creation of the author's animation. Students work in all sorts of different animation techniques, with a special interest in keeping the stop motion animation traditions alive. The master's program in animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts is international and students from all over the world come to study there.

Curated by Ülo Pikkov.

Running time 65 min.

  • International Father's Day
    Edmunds Jansons

    Estonia | 05:00 | 2012

    For people Father’s Day is a celebration, but for one small bird – an ordinary working day. And concerns are the same old – to get food for his family.

  • Fly Mill ("Kärbeste veski")
    Anu-Laura Tuttelberg

    Estonia | 07:17 | 2012

    The protagonist is a Miller living in a watermill. He bakes daily bread and raises ducklings whom he wishes one day to set free. But on the field next to his home, hunters go to shoot birds.

     

  • Penelope
    Heta Jäälinoja

    Estonia | 04:08 | 2016

    Doorbell rings. Someone is at the door. But everything’s a mess.

  • Cufufu
    Bruno Quast

    Estonia | 06:27 | 2021

    Bernie Krause's niche theory is that an animal's voice evolved in a way to occupy its own little, unique acoustic slot within a whole soundscape, a puzzle piece in the whole puzzle, to be distinguishable in the mess. A fisher wonders what sounds fit best in niches created by surrounding sounds.

  • Sweet Sweat
    Jung Hyun Kim

    Estonia | 06:13 | 2018

    A child recognizes the erotic relationship between the parents. Curious but overwhelmed, the child takes control.

  • Hidden Life
    Kadi Sink, Sigrit Villido, Silver Strazdins

    Estonia | 08:21 | 2022

    A poetic film about trauma and the growth that can come from it.

     

  • Tik-Tak
    Ülo Pikkov

    Estonia | 09:31 | 2015

    Watchmaker controls the time, but the mouse living in the watchmaker's workshop controls the clocks... This is a film about time and its ephemeral nature. The animated film "Tik-Tak" is visualizing the time and its fatal substance. We all have got "our time" but it contains actually thousand of different "times", even every cell in our body has its own specific time to live and to die.

  • Face Recognition
    Martinus Daane Klemet

    Estonia | 06:45 | 2021

    In a world where nothing or no one escapes the law, the only loophole is to get drunk. And in this colourful, absurd and entertaining animation; getting drunk means getting down and running amok!

  • Fok nabo distorio
    Francesco Rosso

    Estonia | 07:03 | 2014

    Experimental abstract animation based on "Liivaterade Raamat" composed by Liis Viira. This short film is improvised by animating in stop-motion different objects through optical lenses.

  • Muteum
    Aggie Pak-Yee Lee

    Estonia | 04:10 | 2017

    In an Art Muzeum, we better learn well, from outer to inner, from deep to very deep, serious and sincerely.