RAGNAR NELJANDI ´Thursday´

After surviving several incidents the protagonist realises who he really is.

Ragnar Neljandi has graduated from the tv and radio journalism class at Lasnamäe Gymnasium but his studies at the Tallinn Pedagogy University film-video department were left incomplete. Since 1998 he has been the cameramans assistant at many films of Nukufilm and for the four last years he has been working as the cameraman at the making of several feature films and Nukufilm productions. ´Thursday´is his first animated film as a director.

author: Ragnar Neljandi
music: Georg Gurjev, Evestus (Vaultec Productions)
technique: 2D
completed: 2006, Tallinn
duration: 5´

MARTIN OJA, KUDRUN VUNGI ´Rain Terrain´ 

There is a place where umbrellas grow. It’s called Rain Terrain. A bizarre celestial machinery controls its everyday rhythms and hues. What will it take to stop the motion of clouds and make the rain fall?

Martin Oja writes and animates images and sounds. He has studied semiotics and literature, his interests lie in film theory and ecology. Martin has written film critique and published a poetry book in 2004.
Kudrun Vungi is a furniture restoration and design graduate. She has been active at Tartu Students’ Theatre and has made short films before, too.

director: Martin Oja
script: Kudrun Vungi
music: Pastacas
technique: 3D
completed: 2006
duration: 6´

ELINA BEEKMANN, ANASTASSIA KOVÕTSHKA, LAURA KÕIV, URSULA VANAMÖLDER ´1/4´ 

A pixillation of the four seasons and four eras, which derived from Vivaldi’s music of the four seasons and was inspired by the symbiosis of the four different girls. The Drummer’s empty bed with a fantasy by Ursula, Laura, Elina and Anastassia from EKA’s scenography department.

authors: Elina Beekmann, Anastassia Kovõtshka, Laura Kõiv, Ursula Vanamölder
camera: Urmas Jõemees
music: Tencu & Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
drums: Karlis Goldstein
supported by: EKA, Nukufilm, Vene Teater, Eesti Draamatear
technique: pixillation
completed: 2007
duration: 2´

ticket: 13

´Second floor films´ is an entirely new series of Kanuti Gildi SAAL. The aim of the series is to present works that do not fit into the cinemas. The screenings take place in the limited space of the second floor lobby of the Kanuti Gildi SAAL.