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 was born on August 26, 1946 in Tallinn. He graduated from the Department of Biology at the University of Tartu in 1970, and worked as animated film director in Tallinnfilm Studio since 1976 and at Eesti Joonisfilm Studio since 1994. He has been active as a caricaturist and illustrator since the end of the 1960's and has received a lot of prestigious international awards for his caricatures. From the early 1980s he has been working more and more as freelance graphic artist. Pärn has had over 50 solo graphic exhibitions all over the world. He has made 18 animated films as a director, scriptwriter and art director. He has received more than 80 awards from world`s top festivals, including 22 Grands Prix.