- Occupation
Director - Country
Estonia
Kotov Rein
6 Hours
Huge cruise ships come to Tallinn in summer, each one carrying thousands of tourists mostly from the United States. They stay in Tallinn just for 6 hours. Endless lines of bus-drivers, tour-guides and tour-managers await them in the harbor. The cruisers rush through the main sightseeing locations, eat out in town and board the ship again. Tallinn is just another pit stop on their long route. The pier is filled with waving customs officers exhausted from the day's tense work. "6 Hours" tells a humorous story about one summer day in the Eastern European town called Tallinn.
Estonian Stories. Pastacas
PASTACAS aka RAMO TEDER is a mystical guy. He makes strange and infatuating folktronical music, and draws on top of his oil-paintings with a ball-point pen (the name Pastacas in estonian means ball-point pen). His music is known from Finland to Tokyo. He lives in south-western Finland in a small idyllic village with his wife piia and daughter Pihla. He composes his music from miniature parts, which put together form a lyrically strange whole. Ramo is a traveller and musician, Estonian artist living abroad.
Huge cruise ships come to Tallinn in summer, each one carrying thousands of tourists mostly from the United States. They stay in Tallinn just for 6 hours. Endless lines of bus-drivers, tour-guides and tour-managers await them in the harbor. The cruisers rush through the main sightseeing locations, eat out in town and board the ship again. Tallinn is just another pit stop on their long route. The pier is filled with waving customs officers exhausted from the day's tense work. "6 Hours" tells a humorous story about one summer day in the Eastern European town called Tallinn.
Estonian Stories. Pastacas
PASTACAS aka RAMO TEDER is a mystical guy. He makes strange and infatuating folktronical music, and draws on top of his oil-paintings with a ball-point pen (the name Pastacas in estonian means ball-point pen). His music is known from Finland to Tokyo. He lives in south-western Finland in a small idyllic village with his wife piia and daughter Pihla. He composes his music from miniature parts, which put together form a lyrically strange whole. Ramo is a traveller and musician, Estonian artist living abroad.
Rein Kotov is a Director of Photography with an extensive range of experience encompassing film production - feature films, documentaries and television commercials. By the time he graduated from All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK, Moscow) as a Cinematographer in 1991, he had already started his professional career at Tallinnfilm, where he was DOP of four short films. Since 1991 Rein Kotov has been the cinematographer for numerous features, short films and documentaries. He has also directed/co-directed and edited documentaries and television commercials. Rein was a nominee of the "European Cinematographer 2001" at the European Film Awards 2001.