Juku animaõhtu: Pühitseme elu!

28.10 at 18:00. The best colleague 2022 prize of Animation Union will be announced. Evening supported by Pühaste Brewery.

Juku Animation Evenings follow the good tradition of Animation Union to organise events with the purpose of valuing our animation heritage and bringing together older and younger creators and audience. The name of the series highlights the main character of the very first Estonian animated film “Adventures of Juku the Dog” that premiered in 1931.

The opening event of the series celebrates International Animation Day, October 28th. In 1892 that day was the first public presentation of Théâtre Optique in Paris by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Optical Theatre is a moving picture system that projected animated images on a wall. During the presentation Reynaud manipulated the speed of the film by hand and repeated some movements to produce a visual story that could last longer than 10 minutes. Since 2002 that day has been celebrated worldwide to remember this beginning and call attention to animation in general.

The best colleague 2022 prize of Animation Union will be announced. Evening supported by Pühaste Brewery.

Ülo Pikkov “Tik-tak” 9m 26s

Animated film “Tick-Tack” is visualizing time and it’s fatal nature. In order to underline the time as a metaphysical phenomena there are a lot of clocks and watches and its part to characterize it. We all are given “our time”, this “our time consists in reality in thousands of different “times” since even every cell in our body has its own time given to live and to die. Watchmaker controls the time, but the mouse living in the watchmaker’s workshop controls the clocks… This is a film about time and its ephemeral nature.

Jonas Taul “A Most Exquisite Man” 15m

There exists a most exquisite man, or at least the world that surrounds him, labels and sees him as such. He has fantastic abilities, incomprehensible talent, he could even be called a genius, yet something within him is restless. Big questions utterly absorb him, leading him to a place where all he can do is surrender his life, in order to find that which gives him and the natural world undeniable purpose and concluding peace.

Kaspar Jancis “Cosmonaut” 11m 38s

An old Cosmonaut lives the same kind of life now in his flat in a concrete panel apartment building as he did in his youth in a space station. As before, he still carries out heroic missions and misses his close relatives, who he left behind on his home planet. His close relatives see the situation altogether differently. Is this old man capable of coming to grips with the norms that apply in society? A cosmonaut will always be a cosmonaut. To the very end.

Anu-Laura Tuttelberg “Winter in the Rainforest” 8m 36s

In a hidden corner of the world there is a place where all impossible dreams come true. In a rainforest amidst lush nature fragile porcelain animals can be found. Strange white stony creatures are born in wild river streams, birds with feet like human fingers hunt for flying fish, vicious spiders catch miniature dancers into their traps…This is a surreal world inhabited by creatures never seen before. Time here passes in a strange way moving in an unexpected paste. As the film is shot in nature the changes of light create a strange shift between the passing of time and the movement of the characters. Tropical nature, ceramic creatures, Estonian music and sounds of northern nature form a surreal world with bizarre sensation of seeing something unknown but familiar at the same time.

Ave Taavet “To Pet a Hedgehog” 11m 40s

Woman meets a hedgehog. Hedgehog is the one she has been waiting for. So begins an autumn delirium amidst the solitude of a Soviet microdistrict, where reality merges with dreams and humans discover their animal side.