Aarne Vasar

Hell

Rein Raamat’s Hell adapts the engravings of Estonian graphic artist Eduard Wiiralt into a surreal, grotesque, and heavily sexual animated short. Wiiralt’s three source works, “The Preacher,” “Cabaret,” and “Hell,” date back to the early 1930s and portray a cacophony of bacchanalia, hysteria, and violence in the final years of Estonian independence amid the unrest of the Great Depression and European instability.

The Triangle

Julia spends every night preparing a multi-course feast for her husband Viktor. Until one day Eduard appears from under the electric stove and starts demanding his share of the meal.

Some Exercises in Preparation of an Independent Life

A sometimes harsh, sometimes goofy look at the routines that give our lives form.

Tyll the Giant

Based on an Estonian folk tale about of the gigantic hero, Tõll, who lived on the island of Saaremaa (Oesel) in the Baltic Sea. Though he was king of the island, Tõll often worked as a common farmer, tending to his crops and returning to his loving wife. He was a good king, often quick to anger but always kind and willing to help his fellow man. Tõll's greatest enemy is the god of the underworld who specializes in sly, cowardly mischief. When war comes to the island, Tõll arrives to aid his dying army, but the devil takes advantage of his absence to wreak havoc on Tõll's home.

Klaabu

Klaabu's birth and adventure begins.

Sunday

Dedicated to the contradictions of scientific and technical progress, warning against one-sided technical developments that turn a person into an involuntary consumer.

Antennid jääs

It can sometimes seem as though all sorts of machines will be able to solve all problems. But this notion is wrong. Once a polar explorer once again began his research. He never imagined that the elements of nature could be so powerful that no machine would be able to stop them.

The Simpletons

The story of a bunch of peasants who have a hard time using logic to build their community.

The Flight

A short Estonian animation about a man's desire to fly.