Uuf

ANIMATION
graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts with a bachelor’s degree in animation in 2022

WORK IN PROGRESS
currently creating animation for Madli Lääne’s new documentary film “Song of Sleepless Nights”, which was one of six films presented in the Cannes 2025 WIP program. the film portraits teenage boys, a generation growing up simultaneously in both real and virtual worlds.
in the animation, I provide visual forms to the boys’ stories.

 i'm developing my debut short animation — still a secret but:

"NO SHOTCUTS"
a little dump of illegal rubbish brings great trouble upon the forest creatures 

"NO SHORTCUTS" is a three-minute frame-by-frame hand-drawn animation, one of my two diploma films.  here's the trailer: 

"NO SHORTCUTS" was selected for the EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal / Arthouse Cinema program, which screens it in over thirty cinemas worldwide and includes school visits.

The film has traveled to the following festivals:

  • Animist Tallinn / Estonian New Animation / Estonia, Tallinn / 17–20 August / 2022

  • Primanima / Competition Programme / Budaörs, Hungary / 5–8 October / 2022

  • Big Cartoon Festival / Student Competition / Moscow, Russia / 27 October – 7 November / 2022

  • Balkanima / Belgrade, Serbia / 4–9 October / 2022

  • Manchester Animation Festival / Manchester, UK / 13–18 November / 2022

  • T-short / online / 10–27 March / 2022

  • TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2023 / online / 8–12 March / 2023

The film was also published in the Goethe Institute’s online magazine Samovar.


"HIDDEN LIFE"
a poetic journey from trauma to healing - half of the forest is burnt, while the other half is blooming

"HIDDEN LIFE" is my second diploma film, created together with Sigrit Villido and Silver Strazdins.

It is a stop-motion puppet film, where we handled every stage ourselves: writing the script, building the set, making puppets, setting the lighting, animating, and post-processing the film. Our set is made from materials gathered from forests in northern Estonia. We chose natural materials firstly to keep the film’s ecological footprint small, and secondly as a tribute to Estonian animation master Heino Pars. It traveled to the following festivals:

  • Animist Tallinn / Estonian New Animation / Estonia, Tallinn / 17–20 August / 2022
  • Linoleum / Contemporary Estonian Animation / Ukraine, online / 7–11 September / 2022
  • Fredrikstad Animation Festival / Nordic-Baltic Student Film Competition / Fredrikstad, Norway / 20–23 October / 2022
  • Piccolo Festival Animazione / Green Animation Competition Program / Pordenone, Italy / 12–20 November / 2022
  • Animateka International Animated Film Festival / European Young Talents Competition Programme / Ljubljana, Slovenia / 28 November – 4 December / 2022
  • Ars Indipendant (Winter edition) / Best of EKA / Katowice, Poland / 2–3 December / 2022
  • Animex Awards / online / 6–10 November / 2023
  • BLON Animation and Games Festival / International Competition Programme of Animated Shorts / 7–10 September / 2023
  • Craft ANIMFEST / International Competition of Stop-Motion and Traditional Techniques in Animation / Malang, East Java, Indonesia / 23–28 October / 2023
  • AnimArte 2023 / International Student Animation Festival of Brazil / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / November / 2023


"MISFITS" 
a reflection on the COVID-19 pandemic
i photographed discarded masks in Tallinn from September 2020 to March 2021