Sulev Keedus

Sulev Keedus

Рождение : 1957-07-21, Tallinn, Estonia

История

Sulev Keedus (born July 21, 1957, Tallinn) graduated from the Tallinn Pedagogical Institute in 1979 and the Higher Courses for Directors and Screenwriters in Moscow in 1989. He has made numerous documentaries. Keedus' feature film debut "The Only Sunday" was completed in 1990. His next feature films "Georgica" and "Somnambuul" gained attention at several film festivals.

Профиль

Sulev Keedus

Фильмы

Elusive Landscapes
Director of Photography
Pille, whose last surviving close relative is her daughter living in Finland, attempts to farm sheep alone while defying old age. Felix is worried about bees. Beehives remain empty, bee colonies are dying out, queens are not laying enough eggs for the new generations to hatch. Fields are being poisoned and primaeval forests are being clear-cut. Father Agaton serves small local Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church congregations, performs blessings, and administers Communion. The Estonian Defence League member Hellat and his daughter Kateriina look for silver, which is supposedly buried in the ground.
Elusive Landscapes
Director
Pille, whose last surviving close relative is her daughter living in Finland, attempts to farm sheep alone while defying old age. Felix is worried about bees. Beehives remain empty, bee colonies are dying out, queens are not laying enough eggs for the new generations to hatch. Fields are being poisoned and primaeval forests are being clear-cut. Father Agaton serves small local Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church congregations, performs blessings, and administers Communion. The Estonian Defence League member Hellat and his daughter Kateriina look for silver, which is supposedly buried in the ground.
Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow
Screenplay
The film consists of three chapters. The Manslayer takes place more than a hundred years ago. The leading character Maara is a young bride who is about to start her life in her new family. The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of a young woman called Elina, who has been deported from Ingria into Estonia during the previous war. The Shadow moves in the present, on the border of real life and fantasy. The main character, Luna Lee, has decided to flee from home. Is there anything besides emptiness somewhere? The film is led by the singularity of the leading character - Maara, Elina and Luna Lee are all played by the same actress.
Manslayer/Virgin/Shadow
Director
The film consists of three chapters. The Manslayer takes place more than a hundred years ago. The leading character Maara is a young bride who is about to start her life in her new family. The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of a young woman called Elina, who has been deported from Ingria into Estonia during the previous war. The Shadow moves in the present, on the border of real life and fantasy. The main character, Luna Lee, has decided to flee from home. Is there anything besides emptiness somewhere? The film is led by the singularity of the leading character - Maara, Elina and Luna Lee are all played by the same actress.
Письма к Ангелу
Writer
Это история Йеремии Юунаса Киротайи, который много лет назад воевал в Афганистане и там принял ислам. Вернувшись домой, он столкнулся с еще одной войной, хотя и несколько другого рода. Линия фронта в его родном эстонском городке пролегла между западной и восточной культурами, мужчинами и женщинами, здравым смыслом и безумием. И где-то там затерялась его дочь по имени Ангел, которую герой решает разыскать после долгих лет разлуки. В своих поисках он может ориентироваться только на ее рыдания, которые он однажды услышал в телефонной трубке, и зачитанную до дыр тетрадку со своими письмами к ней.
Письма к Ангелу
Director
Это история Йеремии Юунаса Киротайи, который много лет назад воевал в Афганистане и там принял ислам. Вернувшись домой, он столкнулся с еще одной войной, хотя и несколько другого рода. Линия фронта в его родном эстонском городке пролегла между западной и восточной культурами, мужчинами и женщинами, здравым смыслом и безумием. И где-то там затерялась его дочь по имени Ангел, которую герой решает разыскать после долгих лет разлуки. В своих поисках он может ориентироваться только на ее рыдания, которые он однажды услышал в телефонной трубке, и зачитанную до дыр тетрадку со своими письмами к ней.
Jonathan from Australia
Director of Photography
The small town locals of Mustjala are the Indians of Estonia - they are ravaged by alcoholism and depression, because they've been ignored by the shiny capitalist dream. But then a German tourist ship boards in Mustjala. Could it be the realization of an old Estonian legend about a white ship coming from another land and bringing joy and prosperity for the local people?
Jonathan from Australia
Idea
The small town locals of Mustjala are the Indians of Estonia - they are ravaged by alcoholism and depression, because they've been ignored by the shiny capitalist dream. But then a German tourist ship boards in Mustjala. Could it be the realization of an old Estonian legend about a white ship coming from another land and bringing joy and prosperity for the local people?
Jonathan from Australia
Director
The small town locals of Mustjala are the Indians of Estonia - they are ravaged by alcoholism and depression, because they've been ignored by the shiny capitalist dream. But then a German tourist ship boards in Mustjala. Could it be the realization of an old Estonian legend about a white ship coming from another land and bringing joy and prosperity for the local people?
Somnambulance
Writer
Autumn 1944, Estonia. Tens of thousands of people leave their homeland in fear of approaching frontline. Some seashore villages remain completely empty. A young woman with huge grey eyes gets off the boat. Eetla leaves the last boat, thus giving up her last chance to escape. Defying the cold wind and rain of September, she returns to the lighthouse which is unexpected to her father Gottfrid, the lighthouse keeper, and herself. Eetla's return becomes her self-encounter and self-recognition.
Somnambulance
Director
Autumn 1944, Estonia. Tens of thousands of people leave their homeland in fear of approaching frontline. Some seashore villages remain completely empty. A young woman with huge grey eyes gets off the boat. Eetla leaves the last boat, thus giving up her last chance to escape. Defying the cold wind and rain of September, she returns to the lighthouse which is unexpected to her father Gottfrid, the lighthouse keeper, and herself. Eetla's return becomes her self-encounter and self-recognition.
Георгики
Producer
Странная мистерия про чудаковатого старика и немого мальчика. Старик живет на острове-полигоне, который используется советской военной авиацией для тренировочных бомбометаний: после каждого такого налета он по телефону сообщает квадраты, в которые попали бомбы. Еще старик разводит пчел и известен как целитель. Мальчика на остров отправляют по просьбе его матери, после того, как он онемел. А онемел он намеренно, в знак протеста против того, что его мать работает проституткой в передвижных военных борделях. Обнаружив мать с очередным хахалем, сын бросился на нее с ножом, ранил в руку и после этого перестал говорить. Женщина надеется, что старик вылечит мальчика. Вот и живут на острове два одиночества. И обоих мучают воспоминания - старика о годах, проведенных в исследовательской экспедиции в Африке, мальчишку - о том, что он видел дома. Живут до тех пор, пока в результате очередного налета бомбы попадают не туда, куда надо...
Георгики
Writer
Странная мистерия про чудаковатого старика и немого мальчика. Старик живет на острове-полигоне, который используется советской военной авиацией для тренировочных бомбометаний: после каждого такого налета он по телефону сообщает квадраты, в которые попали бомбы. Еще старик разводит пчел и известен как целитель. Мальчика на остров отправляют по просьбе его матери, после того, как он онемел. А онемел он намеренно, в знак протеста против того, что его мать работает проституткой в передвижных военных борделях. Обнаружив мать с очередным хахалем, сын бросился на нее с ножом, ранил в руку и после этого перестал говорить. Женщина надеется, что старик вылечит мальчика. Вот и живут на острове два одиночества. И обоих мучают воспоминания - старика о годах, проведенных в исследовательской экспедиции в Африке, мальчишку - о том, что он видел дома. Живут до тех пор, пока в результате очередного налета бомбы попадают не туда, куда надо...
Георгики
Director
Странная мистерия про чудаковатого старика и немого мальчика. Старик живет на острове-полигоне, который используется советской военной авиацией для тренировочных бомбометаний: после каждого такого налета он по телефону сообщает квадраты, в которые попали бомбы. Еще старик разводит пчел и известен как целитель. Мальчика на остров отправляют по просьбе его матери, после того, как он онемел. А онемел он намеренно, в знак протеста против того, что его мать работает проституткой в передвижных военных борделях. Обнаружив мать с очередным хахалем, сын бросился на нее с ножом, ранил в руку и после этого перестал говорить. Женщина надеется, что старик вылечит мальчика. Вот и живут на острове два одиночества. И обоих мучают воспоминания - старика о годах, проведенных в исследовательской экспедиции в Африке, мальчишку - о том, что он видел дома. Живут до тех пор, пока в результате очередного налета бомбы попадают не туда, куда надо...
In Paradisum
Director of Photography
In Paradisum relates two disturbing stories simultaneously. The female narrator tells her personal tale of imprisonment as the wife of the notorious Estonian serial killer, Andreas Hanni. Although her story is bizarre, it touches familiar themes that run throughout modern life: the desire to be loved and the fear of being alone. Pille Hanni's tale unfolds over cinema vérité images of life in several Estonian prisons. At times the images reflect in a literary way the events of the narration, yet they are representations and impressions, rather than traditional documentary style footage of the people involved. This opens the story to a more general interpretation, often with unsettling results. The parallel contents reveal, at two levels of story and social organisation, how the bizarre and inhuman can be tolerable and even addictive in the face of our fears.
In Paradisum
Writer
In Paradisum relates two disturbing stories simultaneously. The female narrator tells her personal tale of imprisonment as the wife of the notorious Estonian serial killer, Andreas Hanni. Although her story is bizarre, it touches familiar themes that run throughout modern life: the desire to be loved and the fear of being alone. Pille Hanni's tale unfolds over cinema vérité images of life in several Estonian prisons. At times the images reflect in a literary way the events of the narration, yet they are representations and impressions, rather than traditional documentary style footage of the people involved. This opens the story to a more general interpretation, often with unsettling results. The parallel contents reveal, at two levels of story and social organisation, how the bizarre and inhuman can be tolerable and even addictive in the face of our fears.
In Paradisum
Director
In Paradisum relates two disturbing stories simultaneously. The female narrator tells her personal tale of imprisonment as the wife of the notorious Estonian serial killer, Andreas Hanni. Although her story is bizarre, it touches familiar themes that run throughout modern life: the desire to be loved and the fear of being alone. Pille Hanni's tale unfolds over cinema vérité images of life in several Estonian prisons. At times the images reflect in a literary way the events of the narration, yet they are representations and impressions, rather than traditional documentary style footage of the people involved. This opens the story to a more general interpretation, often with unsettling results. The parallel contents reveal, at two levels of story and social organisation, how the bizarre and inhuman can be tolerable and even addictive in the face of our fears.
Ainus pühapäev
Director
Võrokese
Director
The physionomy of a city through its people.
Metsade taga
Director
The small town of Iisaku in the middle of the large forests behind Alutaguse has long been known for its lively spirit and cultural-minded sense of life. The people of Iisaku talk about its past and present.