Prava mojstra / Kings of the Time / Aja meistrid

Prava mojstra / Aja meistrid

Estonija, 2008, digiBeta, barvni/čb, 72'
V estonskem jeziku z angleškimi podnapisi.
Režija, grafična podoba: Mait Laa
Scenarij: Mait Laas, Peep Pedmanson
Animacija: Märt Kivi, Andres Tenusaar, Marili Toome, Raivo Möllits, Leo Lätti
Kamera: Kristjan-Jaak Nuudi, Erik Norkroos, Raivo Möllits, Jevgeni Kokusev, Kullar Viimne, Erko Kuld
Montaža: Kersti Miilen, Erik Norkroos, Mait Laa
Glasba: Tõnu Kõrvit
Zvok: Horret K
Produkcija: Exitfilm OÜ, Nukufilm OÜ

Dokumentarni film z animiranimi sekvencami o dveh animatorjih in umetnikih, ki sta postala mojstra lutkovne animacije. Elbert Tuganov in Heino Pars sta avtorja prvega stereoskopskega lutkovnega filma in številnih drugih mednarodno nagrajenih animiranih filmov. Leta 1957 sta postavila temelje tako imenovane estonske šole animacije.
»Bila sta že odrasla moška, ko sta se začela igrati z lutkami. A pol stoletja kasneje lahko z zadovoljstvom gledamo v njuno preteklost. Pred 50 leti sta estonska lutkarja namreč ustanovila estonsko šolo animiranega filma v Talinu. Spoznala pa sta se povsem po naključju. Tuganov se je leta 1920 rodil v mestu Baku, odraščal pa je v Berlinu, kjer se je kasneje preživljal kot animator pri studiu Döring-Film-Werke. Po letu 1940 je vstopil v sovjetsko Rdečo armado. Pars, rojen leta 1925 v estonski vasici, pa je bil vpoklican v nemški Wermacht. Polpretekla zgodovina je stalna tema več kot 70 lutkovnih filmov, ki sta jih ustvarila v treh desetletjih. Tuganov in Pars sta v svoj lutkovni film pogosto vnašala dokumentarne prvine. Ta tehnika pospremi tudi pričujoči filmski portret njunega življenja in dela.« Nordische Filmatage Lübeck

Mait Laas (1970, Talin) je pisatelj, animator in režiser dokumentarnega filma, delujoč v rojstnem mestu Talin. Študiral je vizualne medije na dunajski Akademiji likovne umetnosti, po poklicu je profesor umetnosti, svoja dela pa je razstavljal že v Estoniji, Nemčiji in na Švedskem. Leta 2000 je za vzhodnoevropsko kompilacijo kratkih filmov Izgubljeno in najdeno (Lost and Found) prispeval svoj kratkometražec Gene+Ratio.

Izbor festivalov in nagrad: nagrada Združenja estonskih filmskih kritikov za film leta 2008, nagrada Estonskega kulturnega sklada za najboljši dokumentarni film leta 2008, Recontres Audiovisuelles Lille, Festival dokumentarnega filma Vilna, Filmski festival Black Nights Talin (nagrada Fipresci), Nordic Film Days Lübeck, MFF Asolo ArtFilm (najboljša biografija umetnika), Mednarodni festival animiranega filma London, MFF Melbourne, Stuttgart ITFS, MFF Sofija

Kings of the Time / Aja meistrid

Estonia, 2008, digiBeta, colour/b&w, 72'
In Estonian language with English subtitles.
Directed, Graphic Design by: Mait Laa
Screenplay: Mait Laas, Peep Pedmanson
Animation: Märt Kivi, Andres Tenusaar, Marili Toome, Raivo Möllits, Leo Lätti
Camera: Kristjan-Jaak Nuudi, Erik Norkroos, Raivo Möllits, Jevgeni Kokusev, Kullar Viimne, Erko Kuld
Editing: Kersti Miilen, Erik Norkroos, Mait Laa
Music: Tõnu Kõrvit
Sound: Horret K
Production: Exitfilm OÜ, Nukufilm OÜ

A documentary film with animated sequences about two animators and artists who became masters of puppet animated film. Elbert Tuganov and Heino Pars are the creators of the world's first stereoscopic puppet film and many international award-winning animated films. They laid the foundation for the so-called Estonian school of animation back in 1957.
“They were grown men when they started playing with dolls - but half a century later Elbert Tuganov and Heino Pars could look back on their past with satisfaction. 50 years ago the two puppeteers founded the Estonian school of animated film in Tallinn. It was a coincidence that the two men had met at all. Tuganov was born in 1920 in Baku and grew up in Berlin, where he earned his living as an animator with Döring-Film-Werke. After 1940 he served in the Red Army. Pars, born in 1925 in an Estonian village, was drafted into the Wehrmacht. Contemporary history is a recurring theme in more than 70 puppet films, which the two men shot in 30 years. Tuganov and Pars often mixed representational and documentary film with their puppet animations. The same technique underlies this filmic portrait of their life and work.” Nordische Filmatage Lübeck

Mait Laas (1970, Tallinn) works as an author, animator and director of documentary films in Tallinn, his place of birth. He is a trained art teacher, his work has been exhibited in Estonia, Germany and Sweden and he studied visual media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 2000 he contributed the episode Gene+Ratio to the Eastern European short film compilation Lost and Found.

Selected Festivals and Awards: Estonian Film-Critics Association (Film of the Year 2008), Estonian Cultural Endowment (Best Documentary of the Year 2008), Recontres Audiovisuelles Lille, Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Fipresci Prize), Nordic Film Days Lübeck, Asolo ArtFilm IFF (Prize for the Best Artist`s Biography Film), London International Animation Film Festival, Melbourne IFF, Stuttgart ITFS, Sofia IFF