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Conversations with Harro

A floating bed and a woman carefully - and gently - holding a mouse close to her body. Gazing into the void, she is carried by a train of (sub)consciousness. Chimes and (human and animal) voices punctuate this windy, grassy journey. Like in a possible (sleep) paralysis, the terrain of the real and otherworldly are in permanent tension. She fails to close her eyes.

Original Estonian underground rave generation video art – it's cheap, it's loud, it looks like a home video, it's a manifesto against the male-dominated, post-Soviet art world. Created for the exhibition "private views. space re/cognized in contemporary art from Estonia and Britain" (curated by Mare Tralla and Angela Dimitrakaki in the Estonian Art Museum, 1998) Kiwa was the only male artist on the show and chose, quite pertinently, to focus on the space most associated with male creativity. The mythology of the artist's studio as the protected sanctuary of freedom and self-expression par excellence has risen across diverse techniques of visual signification. Access to the studio means access to a celebrated subjectivity.

Mirror on the wall, camera on the ceiling: fast tracked images of waves of an influx of movement inside a women’s bathroom. Entering, waiting, using, leaving: this is a surveillance-style depiction of the transitory life in a non-place filled with possibilities.

An encounter between two men in a club in Riga. A stagnant, distant but carefully observant capturing of a hypnotising pole dance to Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York, that ultimately leads to a personal/closer connection, with general introductory questions about life (and its expectations).

1. Catherine's Ring 2. Body Rider

How to cope as a fish-headed man in human society?

Lost film. Helja, an Estonian woman, and his British groom John have met during the Estonian War of Independence. They hear from an old professor of an old folk tale about the dark past of Estonia. Estonian pageboy Mangu who works at von Sternhell's manor proposes a pretty slave girl Linda. However, von Sternhell gives orders to steal the bride right in the middle of the wedding. She will be taken to von Sternhell's castle according to the brutal middle-age custom – the law of the first night. Together with fellow villagers, Mangu gets into a desperate battle with the noblemen in order to save his wife's pride.

Shot over a single day — after learning of the death of her grandfather, documentary director Katrina Lehismäe and her family take a road trip across a frozen Estonia in the middle of winter to the small town where he lived to take care of his affairs and start to come to terms with their own grief. An intimate portrait of bereavement, life and what is left after it has departed.

A lively little girl runs across the field until she notices a dead bird lying on the ground. The soul leaves the bird’s body and starts moving towards the forest which the curious girl decides to follow. Not knowing what lies ahead, the child falls into the dark spirit world and must find her way back home.

Vahur Kersna's large-scale movie of the life, work and fate of Alo Mattiisen, who became the figurehead of the singing revolution.

Documentary about two Estonian Forest Brothers, Ülo and Aivar Voitka, who ran from soviet recruitment and went on to live in underground bunkers for 14 years. They were captured in 2000, and their punishment became a controversial topic.

A short but educational documentary about a young sculptor who decides to build a cute mini-pig from his troublesome domestic cat. What can modern science and technology do? What kind of tools are needed for a cat-to-pig builder at home? Where are the limits of ethics? What about aesthetics?

Creation connects not only time and like-minded people but also the seemingly unconnected ones. Striving for a common goal or allowing non-targeted hits, we create bridges between worlds. “I came to visit you yesterday and... I will cherish tomorrow's memories.” Does living another day prove I can see the future?

In 2023, Tallinn held the title of the European Green Capital, in the wake of which Joosep Matjus and Katri Rannastu made the documentary “Greener Tallinn”. Through four seasons, the diverse natural landscapes and environments of the Estonian capital reveal themselves layer by layer. This is a tribute to Estonian nature that is right here, in the city around us. Matjus's previous film “The Wind Sculpted Land” won the hearts of many Estonians and showed us what an idyllic environment we live in.

A group of people meet in an online conference. But do they actually meet? Something unexpected happens. This is a sixty-second experimental film in which images from a video conference are turned upside down and mixed with a videogame.

Penny the robot begins to make connections between the objects in it's mysterious basement dwelling. The secret to the basement and the skeleton within promises to be on a videotape.