THE HOUSE GUARD
- Ingel Vaikla
- Cinematographers: Ingel Vaikla, Ants Tammik, Tõnis Tuuga, Astrida Konstante
- Editor: Jette-Krõõt Keedus
- Composer: Ekke Västrik
- Producer: Riho Västrik
26min
2016 Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS, Riga Latvia
2016 City Agents / Linna mõjutajad, EKKM, Tallinn, Estonia. Curated by Jussi Koitela
2016 Lundäng International Film Festival. Lundäng, Sweden
2016 Transmodern Forum ’Utopias and Realities: Socialist Modernism’. Berlin, Germany
2016 Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen. Nijmegen, Holland
2016 World Film Festival, Tartu, Estonia
2016 Place Oddity, EKA galerii, Tallinn, Estonia. Curated by Francisco Martinez
2016 Budapest Architecture Film Days. Budapest, Hungary
2016 Rencontres Internationales NOUVEAU CINÉMA ET ART CONTEMPORAIN. Paris, France
2015 Travak Brabant Tram Video Art Night. Gent, Belgium
2015 24. dokumentART – European Film festival for Documentaries. Neubrandenburg, Germany
2015 Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam. Rotterdam, Holland
2015 Architecture. Film. Summer. Vienna, Austria
The 22nd Summer Olympic Games were hosted in Moscow in 1980. As inland Moscow had no suitable venue for the sailing events this task fell to Tallinn on the Baltic Coast. One of the venues built for the occasion was the Lenin Palace of Culture and Sport, which was later renamed to its present name – Linnahall. However, since 2009 the building has been closed. The House Guard is a double portrait – of the Linnahall and its caretaker Peter, who are both bound by seclusion. It tells the story of the decline of a legendary building through one man’s eyes, and the personal story of a man against the backdrop of a vanishing building. It is a dialogue between the two.
Bibliography
Mark Minkjan AFFR filmtip van Mark Minkjan: The House Guard. De Architect 02.10.2015
Failed Architecture ‘Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 2015’
Peeter Sauter ‘Eesti Lugusid jätkub (aga kus on suured lood?) II.’ TMK 2015/nr. 5