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.
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.
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.
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.
Estonia | 06:13 | 2018
A child recognizes the erotic relationship between the parents. Curious but overwhelmed, the child takes control.
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.
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!
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.
Estonia | 04:10 | 2017
In an Art Muzeum, we better learn well, from outer to inner, from deep to very deep, serious and sincerely.