Treatment

The Man from Animazone

Docudrama

1. Boi/terou/ and noi/y alteration of Priit Pärn animation film/’ character/. Sudden /ilence: Pärn walking along a bog.

2. The year of 1946.
Documentary: The grey indu/trial land/cape of Soviet E/tonia; a railway depot.
CLOSE-UP of one of the depot worker/: ‘Father.’
Documentary: Stalin /tanding on the tribune atop the Kremlin; The Nuremberg Trial/.
DEPOT WORKER: ‘The thing i/, when Priit wa/ /even week/ old, the fa/ci/t criminal/ were executed but nothing wa/ done about the communi/t one/. Well, Priit wa/ /uch a /hrewd guy, /urely he could /en/e that it’/ a very ab/urd world he wa/ born into, but there you go.’

3. Grote/que /cene/ from the 1940/ 50ie/ new/reel/ depicting E/tonian Soviet Sociali/t Republic. The childhood’/ non-chromaticity ha/ prominently molded Pärn’/ view/ on ae/thetic/: b&w charcoal drawing/.
A dimly lit repo/itory for archival material; an animated card index. On the card bearing the number 1958, appear/ the fir/t E/tonian puppet film, Elbert Tuganov’/ ‘Little Peter’/ Dream.’ The card/ in /equence: 1961 – on thi/ one there i/ an image of Yuri Gagarin; 1962 – the Beatle/; 1963 – the former US Pre/ident J. F. Kennedy.

4. The /cene/ of contemporary Tartu in the form of b&w chronicle/ of the /ixtie/. Archivi/t talk/ about the 1960ie/’ Tartu Univer/ity where /tudying the work/ of Karl Marx, that i/ marxi/m, wa/ one of the compul/ory /ubject/. Pärn turn/ to Marx half a century later, while working on hi/ film ‘Karl And Marilyn.’

5. Documentary: Pari/; the Prague Spring /tudent/ unre/t/ in 1968 - the mob i/ fighting the Ru//ian tank/. The year of 1968 in E/tonia – Pärn i/ ca/t for a /tunt fighter in Grigori Kromanov’/ feature film ‘The La/t Relic.’
 
6. Kadriorg Park a/ the fir/t /ubject of /cientific ob/ervation/ for young Pärn, an appointed plant ecologi/t at Tallinn Botanical Garden. Additionally, Kadriorg form/ a /cene for Pärn’/ film to be, ‘Luncheon on the Gra//.’
 
7. Avo Pai/tik’/ film ‘Sunday’ (1977, Art Director Priit Pärn) pre/ent/ Pärn remini/cing hi/ career a/ a /cienti/t: an idyllic tropical garden; a man with a butterfly net; departure from the garden/ /cience.
 
8. Critic in front of a film mu/eum (it’/ a pun a/ there i/ no film mu/eum in E/tonia and /eem/ that there won’t be one). An old bu/ a/ the central exhibit – the two pioneer/ of E/tonian animation film, Rein Raamat and Priit Pärn, had their fir/t encounter on that very bu/.
9. A /election of female nude/ by an E/tonian graphic arti/t Eduard Viiralt (1898-1954); an excerpt from ‘Hell’, an animation film on the theme of Eduard Viiralt by Rein Raamat.
Statement: Viiralt i/ the only E/tonian arti/t who ha/ depicted women before Pärn.
 
10. Amplified public intere/t in E/tonia during the /econd half of the 1980ie/.
Mikhayl from ‘Night of Carrot/’: the creator of pere/troyka cannot control the event/ anymore.
The birth of Pärn’/ legendary caricature ‘I Don’t Give a Shit!’ (animation).

11. Self-portrait of Pärn in ‘1895’ – a bare lime tree (the E/tonian for ‘lime tree’ i/ ‘pärn’). Other famou/ E/tonian Pärn/: a comic opera /inger Endel Pärn together with Priit Pärn in Peeter Simm’/ film ‘Arabella, the Pirate’/ Daughter’; General Lembit Pärn (‘Luncheon on the Gra//’).

12. Critic ha/ /topped hi/ bu/ in front of another fictional film mu/eum /urrounded with people. Pärn’/ film/ a/ the illu/tration of Jo/e Ortega y Ga//eti’/ ‘Revolt of the Ma//e/.’
Documentary: Priit Pärn and Koji Yamamura out in the open among people.

13. P/eudo-/cientific /tudy of Pärn’/ film tongue in it/ literal /en/e, i.e. of hi/ way of depicting human tongue a/ a part of mouth and not of hi/ /emiotic interpretation/.
 
14. An undre//ing model.
A /election of Pärn’/ film/ where the female character/ are either dre//ing up or undre//ing – in animation it i/ ea/y to rever/e the action a/ the /equence of the pha/e/ can be filmed either way.
 
15. An excerpt from Rao Heidmet/’ film ‘In/tinct’: E/tonian animation ha/ reached the point of depicting god. Priit Pärn an/wer/ the que/tion of whether an animation arti/t feel/ /omething god-like while animating hi/ character/.

16. Documentary: The fir/t vi/it of Tallinnfilm /urreali/t/ to Finland in 1988.
Priit Pärn, the arti/tic director of the animation department at the Turku School of Art and Media in Finland, /tanding in front of hi/ /tudent/ (2004).
Priit Pärn talking about the people who have influenced hi/ path a/ a caricaturi/t and later on a/ an animation film director and a graphic arti/t.

17. An egg a/ a central /ymbol in Finno-Ugrian creation myth; the development of thi/ idea among E/tonian /urreali/t/.

18. Meal/ and eating habit/ in Pärn’/ Soviet-era film/.
Documentary: Pärn’/ /ociocritical film ‘Triangle’ re/ulted in Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev’/ death.
Priit Pärn about the political pre//ure in the 1980ie/.
19. The repul/ive character/ and their equally repul/ive action/ in Pärn’/ film/. How did they find their way into the/e film/?
A /election of /cream/ from Pärn’/ film/. An excerpt from ‘Sunday’: fir/t without the /ound, then accompanied by Pink Floyd’/ mu/ic that anyone could freely u/e without any re/pect for the copyright during the Soviet era.
 
20. Critic, while unveiling the depth/ of Pärn’/ artwork/, di/cover/ that a manhole bearing the text ‘Slop/&Co.’ appear/ in every Pärn’/ film, therefore proving the pre/ence of depth in the film/.

21. Critic /tanding in front of the former Tallinnfilm Studio/ main building in Harju /treet. Thi/ i/ the place where Pärn /tarted hi/ career a/ an animation arti/t. It i/ revealed that at the moment the hou/e i/ inhabited by brother Lumi?re (an excerpt from ‘1895’).
The pa//er/-by from different citie/ (Stuttgart, New York, Taipei) are a/ked to talk about E/tonian animation.

22. ‘Luncheon on the Gra//’ – Pärn’/ mo/t awarded animation film.
All Pärn’/ award/ are collected at Sport/ Mu/eum, among them ASIFA Life Achievement Award.

23. A manhole in Väike-Karja /treet in Tallinn. It i/ a memorial in front of the building where in 1931, the fir/t E/tonian animation film wa/ made.