Sõprus (Friendship)
"You don’t realize it used to be different"
The long-term film and photographic project is an exploration of Tallinn, a city in a stage of transition from a post-Soviet state to a country with the most liberal economic system in European Union. A group of teenagers from both Estonian and Russian backgrounds interpret their city from the point of view of here and now. Based on interviews, discussions and improvisation video workshops with the teenagers. The project in its all forms finds its optimism in the floating curiosity of teenage existence.
Film still from Sõprus (Friendship) / Pictures (Portraits of the participants) / Video still from You don’t realize it used to be different / Exhibition Views (Vantaa Art Museum 2010, Montehermoso Cultural Center, Vitoria, Spain. 2009)
Exhibitions & Festivals
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary; Pensée Sauvage: Reconsidering knowledge. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, and Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany; II Moscow Biennale. Monuments of our Discontent: Expiration of Place; KunstenFestivalDesArts, De Markten, Brussels; Ars Baltica Triennale. Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin; Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Pori Art Museum, Finland; KUMU Estonian Art Museum Tallin; After the final simplification of ruins. Montehermoso Cultural Centre Vitoria, Spain; Don’t Misbehave! SCAPE Biennial of Art in Public Space, Christchurch, New Zealand, Anu Pennanen – Films. Frans Hals Museum, De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands; The Arctic Hysteria Onscreen. MOMA New York
In cooperation with
YLE Finnish TV / Estonian TV / Finnish Film Foundation / Taike
In association with
KunstenFestivalDesArts, Brussels
Sõprus – (Friendship)
2007 | 3 screen installation: 20 min/loop, TV version: 30 min | color | S16 mm film transferred on digital file | surround sound | music Stefan Németh
Producer: Virta Productions