ЛАЙФ V КАЙФ or How to Trip in the Soviet Union
The Estonian director Terje Toomistu, who has recently completed a documentary about the hippie movement in the Soviet Union, writes about drug culture behind the Iron Curtain.Continue Reading →
Creators of Independent States: Latvia, Lithuania and Jelgava Gymnasium
The story of how a remarkable school in the southern Latvian city of Jelgava, became a place of disproportionate importance for two Baltic nations – not only Latvia, but also…Continue Reading →
Forest Portraits, Forest People: the Pictures of Jane Remm
Estonia has one of the highest levels of forest cover of any nation in Europe, with almost half of the whole territory of the country made up of forests.Continue Reading →
"Ground" – Haunting Photos of Industry and the Baltic Winter
Ground is a cartographic project of sorts, one which points out transport arteries such as train tracks, roads, pipelines, high voltage transmission lines...Continue Reading →
Petras Cvirka – the Lithuanian Writer Lionised by the Soviets
Born into a poor farming family in 1909, Cvirka's tangled legacy forms a metaphor for all the paradoxes and complexities of the Soviet era in Eastern Europe.Continue Reading →