Synopsis

In honor of cinema‘s one-hundredth birthday, Pärn newly wrote the biography of the Lumière brothers. Unknown details from their lives are treated here in such an unreal way that the invention of cinematograph itself appears questionable to us. Did this invention ever even take place, and if it did, has it enriched our existence or poisoned it? An illusionary-disillusioning film about an illusory medium.

Priit Pärn

Priit Pärn (1946) is a graphic artist, teacher and renowned animation film maker. Since 2006 he has been the head of the animation department at the Estonian Academy of Arts, and a member of the European Film Academy since 2008. In 2008 Pärn received a Lifetime Achievement Award at Animafest. He has created 11 animated films, as well as a host of commercials and shorts, winning numerous awards and prizes. Selection of works: Kas maakera on ümmargune? (Is the Earth Round?, 1977), Kolmnurk (The Triangle, 1982), Eine murul (Breakfast on the Grass, 1987), Hotel E (1992), 1895 (1995), Porgandite öö (Night of the Carrots, 1998), Karl ja Marilyn (Karl and Marilyn, 2003), Frank ja Wendy (Frank and Wendy, 2005), Must lagi (Black Ceiling, 2007), Life without Gabriella Ferri (2009), Divers in the Rain (2010).