Reflections of Time: Baltic Poetic Documentary 2018 / Kihnu naine / Estonia 1974
Kihnu is a small island in the Gulf of Riga. Soosaar looks at the islanders from the point of view of an explorer, just like his filmmaking hero Robert Flaherty once did. Their traditional lifestyle unfolds in front of his camera: customary songs and rituals, and heartfelt images of people’s daily lives.
Kihnu is one of Estonia’s islands, a small piece of land in the Gulf of Riga close to the town of Pärnu. Soosaar looks at the islanders from the point of view of an explorer, just like his filmmaking hero Robert Flaherty once did. Their traditional lifestyle unfolds in front of his camera: customary songs and rituals, and heartfelt images of people’s daily lives. The film takes an anthropological approach to filmmaking, characteristic of a style Soosaar would master in his later pictures.
Zane Balčus
49 min / Color, DCP
Director Mark Soosaar
/ Screenplay Mark Soosaar
/ Dir. of Photography Mark Soosaar
/ Music Veljo Tormis
/ Editor Anne Valing, Veera Liiv
/ Producer Aneliis Simm
/ Production Eesti Telefilm
/ Sales Estonian Film Institute
Mark Soosaar (b. 1946). Selected filmography: Golden Coach (Kuldtõld, 1971), Woman from Kihnu (Kihnu naine, 1973), Christmas in Vigala (Jõulud Vigalas, 1980), Mr. Vene’s World (Härra Vene maailm, 1981), Man of Kihnu (Kihnu mees, 1986), Miss Saaremaa (1989), Father, Son and Holy Torum (Isa, poeg ja püha Toorum, 1997), Anu Raud: Patterns of an Artist’s Life (Anu Raud – elumustrid, 2002)
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