Category: Animation

Screening of EKA Animation graduate students’ films in cinema “Sõprus” on Monday the 20th June at 16.30 p.m.

Films by:

John Francis Quirk, Aspasia Kazeli, Sophia Michele Bazalgette, Lukas Manuel Winter, Jass Kaselaan, Anne Mirjam Kraav, Hleb Kuftseryn, Andrei Bljahhin, Kadi Sink, Ida Lepparu, Sameliina Paurson, Anna Dvornik.

Please come to the screening and bring your family, friends, colleagues and everyone you want to share your works with!

Free entrance!

Cinema “Sõprus”, Vana-Posti 8

See you at the screening!

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The exhibition “Open Windows” will reopen on the windows of the Library of EKA on February 21, at 4 pm.

Through the exhibition of EKA windows, different specialities of EKA introduce their most outstanding projects and the latest creations of students. The exhibition can be viewed on the windows of the EKA Library on Põhja pst and Kotzebue streets and will remain open until March 14.

Specialities represented: Installation and Sculpture, Room Design, Product and Environmental design, Visual Communication, Photography, Jewellery and Blacksmithing, Scenography, Fashion Design, Textile Design, Accessory Design, Graphics, Graphic Design, Animation, Ceramics, Industrial and Digital Product Design, Glass, Architecture, Interior Design, Painting, Art and Visual Culture, Cultural Heritage and Conservation

The exhibition of open windows of EKA made its debut in 2021 and received a warm welcome from those interested in art and art education. The Estonian Academy of Arts, located on the edge of Kalamaja, will once again enliven the city’s cultural landscape at street level. Get with it! 

The Department of Animation invites prospective MA students to join the programme’s Online Open House on Thursday, January 13, 2022 at 17:00 (Tallinn time, GMT+2).

This will be a good opportunity to hear more about the programme, and to meet and ask questions directly from people behind the programme – both the teaching staff and the current students. The open house event will be hosted online over Zoom.

If you would like to attend, please register online through the form below. A link to attend will be e-mailed shortly before the event begins.

Registration is closed.

Recording of the session HERE.

More information about the Animation MA programme:

• https://www.artun.ee/animation
• https://www.facebook.com/EKAanimatsioon
• https://vimeo.com/ekaanima

Admissions period starts on the 1st of February 2022 and application deadline is 1st of March 2022.

https://artun.ee/admissions

Animist Tallinn is a new annual animation festival that offers the audience an overview of the best contemporary films, values animation as an art form, promotes creative thinking and contributes to the distribution of Estonian animation.

The festival centre is located at the Estonian Academy of Arts, where film screenings, workshops, lectures and meetings with authors take place. Close by are several additional screening venues, the attractive and developing North Tallinn area with the city’s best cafes and party locations. Animist brings together animation enthusiasts and filmmakers in a relaxed atmosphere, creates an opportunity to exchange and generate ideas.

In addition to the international competition program, the festival aims to explore the connection between animation and other fields of life. The theme for 2021 is animation and anthropology. Experts in their field will dissect the topic at various film screenings and lectures.

20th August 2021 will also mark the 30th anniversary of the Estonian Restoration of Independence and Animist will celebrate this event with a special screening “The Free Line”.

The festival will also include screenings and events for families and children.

See the full programme here: https://animistfestival.eu/en/

Festival access is free for EKA students!

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/animisttallinn

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/animisttallinn/

The festival is organized by MTÜ Animist Tallinn.

EKA Department of Animation is presenting again fresh students’ animations!! Films by fresh graduates and current students will be screened on the 12th of June at Cinema Sõprus.

Bruno Quast
Saverio Madis Santostasi
Silvan Zweifel
Tamires Muniz Ribeiro
Lukas Winter
Cristo Madissoo
Sofja Gorelova
Anna Semjonova
Kaia Sinilaid
Lyza Jarvis
Kaimar Lomp
Anna Dvornik
Maria Rakitina

Free entrance.

This time we have to limit the audience to 50%. Wearing a mask is obligatory!!

On January 11th, from 6 to 8 PM an open lecture about projection mapping will be held on online with Zoom https://zoom.us/j/94267064018

Projection Mapping is a projection technology used to turn objects, often irregularly shaped, into a display surface for video projection. These objects may be architectural landscapes, such as buildings, small indoor objects, or theatrical stages. This method can add extra dimensions, optical illusions, and notions of movement onto previously static objects.

Taavi Varm is a visual artist interested in combining spatial design with projection-based media. He is currently a Master’s degree student at Media Lab Helsinki, Aalto University. Along the way, he has been teaching video, art, and technology-related courses for the past 20 years in different Universities in Estonia and abroad. That has lead him to be an expert in consulting various government and national projects.

He has done stage video design for numerous theatre plays in Estonia, combining hi-tech solutions to narrow the gap between technology and real-time performance.

Taavi is also specialized in large-scale projection mapping projects. Lately, he has been working with interactive installations for museums and unique environments. To name a few: Fazer Visitor Centre, Georgian Pavillion at World Expo Astana, Unity DOME 360, Narva Alexander’s Cathedral installation, Narva Museum, and many more.

He runs the hybrid design company Varm Studio with his wife, industrial designer Anni Varm, which has developed many big scale projects to introduce Estonian design worldwide.
www.varmstudio.com

Ville MJ Hyvönen is an excellent example of a modern-day Renaissance man. His expertise and experience in the field of film, theatre, sound, and audiovisual have no limit. Almost three decades of work in collaboration with world-known artists like Kristian Smeds, Mikko Roiha, Eva Alkula, Tõnu Kaljuste, Reet Aus, and many more. He has created sound design for numerous theatre plays and full feature movies. Lately, he’s interested in more intimate and detailed sound installations for projects like Fazer Visitor Centre, Finnish Pavillion at World Expo Astana, Helsinki Central Railway Station, and IKEA Our Dream.
www.villehyvonen.fi 

The lecture will be held in English.

EKA Animation MA programme is hosting an online Open House event on the 14th January 2021.

The Department of Animation invites prospective MA students to join the programme’s Online Open House on Thursday, 14th of January 2021 at 17:00 (GMT+2). This will be a good opportunity to hear more about the programme, and to meet and ask questions from the people behind the programme. The event will be hosted online via Zoom.

If you would like to attend, please register using the form below. A link to attend will be e-mailed shortly before the event begins.

STRUCTURE OF THE SESSION

1. Introduction of EKA Animation MA programme (professor Priit Tender, Head of the Animation Department)
2. Overview of workshops, special events and spread of our student works (Mari Kivi, Coordinator of Projects at the Animation Department)
3. Quick virtual tour in the department
4. Students share their experience + quick tour in Niine studio (Sophia Bazalgette ja Camilla Yencken)
5. Q&A session

(Registration is closed)

Video HERE

Voices, noises, music and sounds are the element that make up the soundscape of any existing place. Those responsible for creating a soundtrack for an animated short film have the task of collecting sounds, capturing them from their original sources, removing them from their context and putting them back in the game in a new context: that of the film. In this way, a composer of a soundtrack for an animated film gives new souls to sounds.

Contrary to what happens in live action film where, in general, the voices and dialogue of actors, in the flesh, take center stage in the soundscape of a film, the animated short is filled with sounds often disconnected to speech.

This happens not only because animation is predisposed to communicate and tell stories through moving images, but also because, in general, the animated film is born without sounds: it sometimes adapts of pre-existing music, but more often it is born mute, and therefore requires sound to be constructed around the images, requires a soundscape built specially for the film.

Everything is permitted in a complex electroacoustic composition, made up of sounds of instruments mixed with sounds captured from the real world, electronic processing and sampling of all kinds, sounds of voices and resonant bodies, but always at the exclusive service of the film.

In the Masterclass, Andrea Martignoni will talk his own experience in that field, the collaboration with street artist Blu, with plenty of important artists-animators all over the world, showing and talk about the films he has working on as well as some other animations that touched him a lot for the use of the sound.

Andrea Martignoni was born in Bologna (Italy) in 1961, graduate in Musicology with a thesis on soundtrack in animation and in Geography with a thesis on soundscape. He is a performer, sound designer, historian in Animation. He has created soundtracks for several short animated films by Blu, Saul Saguatti, Michele Bernardi, Pierre Hébert, Virgilio Villoresi, Roberto Catani, Petra Zlonoga, Vessela Dantcheva, Boris Pramatarov, Soetkin Verstegen, Izabela Plucinska, Ülo Pikkov among others. He teached history of animation in Fine Arts Palermo, and in IULM University in Milan. He works closely with several international festivals all over the world with master classes, workshops, lectures on topics related to animation and soundtrack. He is often invited to international juries and selection committees throughout the world.

The centenary of Elbert Tuganov marks the beginning of a year of celebration for Estonian animation, with a series of screenings in Tallinn and Tartu, and a symposium on the value of our animation heritage today.

Mait Laas recalls his behind the scenes personal and lively contact with the maestro in his presentation “Picturesque Sound Bites of Tuganov as a Creator”. The presentation is illustrated with specially digitized thematic historical footage. The discussion will be led by Jaak Lõhmus. Together with animation filmmakers, he will go over Tuganov’s role as a pioneer in Estonian animation. They will also give context to Tuganov’s work and creative heritage in the world today.

Elbert Tuganov was Estonia’s first professional animator, screenwriter, and director. He introduced a new method to Estonian culture – professional animation. Sounds, visual arts, and technology are blended together into a coherent whole by movement that creates a poetic world. The resulting magic touches the human soul and is sometimes childishly joyous (Krõll, 1972), but if necessary observes the world with an adult-like seriousness (Park, 1966). The main theme of most of Elbert Tuganov’s films is the relationship between man and machine or staying human in our society.

Straightforward and determined Elbert Tuganov’s heartfelt and experimental acumen has evolved into a 60-year tradition of animation. This has been appreciated in high culture and received praise and awards at international film festivals, but is equally welcome among children watching at home.

Due to the art of cinema, Elbert Tuganov’s spirit comes to life again and again – even a hundred years later. Let’s share this miracle!

Elbert Tuganov’s Centenary Week is the first event in a longer animation heritage program. On October 13, 2020, we will celebrate the 95th anniversary of Heino Pars, next year on March 20, 2021, Rein Raamat will celebrate his 90th birthday and on June 14, 2021, Eesti Joonisfilm will celebrate its 50th anniversary.

With the events of the jubilee year, we focus on individual authors and artists, as well as the wider field of animation; which provides an opportunity for debates and showcases the diverse historical aspects of animation.