Does anyone know how to cure insomnia? Sometimes it s impossible - and everything just makes it worse. This intriguing, wacky, weird animated short film is a magical journey into the strange realms of insomnia.
Room with a Sea View is kooky animated short created by Russian filmmaker
Leonid Shmelkov, made while he was at the Estonian Art Academy. I don t even know how to describe it… Herbert arrives in the seaside city on a long work trip, there he falls in love with a very strange, beautiful saleswoman in a flower shop. But he has insomnia, which starts to mess with him. One comment eloquently describes it: Super odd and imaginative, like an animated Kaufman movie. It has that Kaufman mix of psychosis and ennui caused by societal expectations. I always appreciate unique, quirky animation. There s a bit of nudity so it s NSFW.
Animated film festival Animist Tallinn is to take place for the first time ever this August. The new festival offers an overview of the best films of recent times, values animation as a form of art, promoting creative thinking and helps to spread animations, ERR s culture portal reports.
The epicenter of the festival is the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) in Tallinn, where the film showings, workshops, lectures and meetings with authors will take place. There is a significant history of animation, permanent national production support, several operating studios and international animation training [in Estonia] but, unfortunately, we haven t had a festival dedicated to animated films up to now, artistic director of the festival, Priit Tender, said.