A collection of psychedelic Pop Art influenced animated films made in 1970s Tallinn.
Within the official cinema circles of the Soviet Union, animation was mainly targeted towards toddlers, young children, and teenagers. Here, on the other hand, the artists had clearly used children-oriented cartoons as a means of artistic expression, and experimented with the possibilities of the film medium in general and this created a discrepancy. These selected films appear as fragmented manifestations of post-Second World War youth culture that also filtered into the ‘wrong side’ of the Iron Curtain. (Andreas Trossek)
The Flight
Director: Rein Raamat
Country: Estonia
Duration: 9
A poetic parable about mankind’s dream of flying coming true.
Colourbird
Director: Rein Raamat
Country: Estonia
Duration: 7
A bored future society starts to come alive with the addition of primary colours, as its world gradually becomes a groovy hippy paradise.
Rabbit
Director: Ando Keskküla
Country: Estonia
Duration: 10
A mechanical experiment test subject escapes from the laboratory where it was created – soon the rabbit is wreaking havoc in the wider world.
Vacuum Cleaner
Director: Avo Paistik
Country: Estonia
Duration: 10
A colourful animation about a red vacuum cleaner that threatens to swallow the whole world.
Atomic and the Goons
Director: Elbert Tuganov
Country: Estonia
Duration: 10
The Goons steal Atomic to use it to start a war.
Sunday
Director: Avo Paistik
Country: Estonia
Duration: 10
Dedicated to the contradictions of scientific and technical progress, warning against one-sided technical developments that turn a person into an involuntary consumer.
The Story of the Bunny
Director: Avo Paistik
Country: Estonia
Duration: 9
Bedtime stories for bunnies: danger lurks wherever you look! A tale of sweet and not-so-sweet animals is told in colorful, astonishingly modern drawings.
