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 →
"Aukstās Dienas…" Singing in Latvian – Without Ever Having Been to Latvia
"First, we had to compose a song about Latvia, a country we had never visited, based entirely on our own imagination..."Continue Reading →
Up the Baltick with Boswell and Johnson
"Marienburg is a vast city equal in size with London, planned with perfect regularity both architecturally and in its social organization."Continue Reading →
Baltic Artists Brought the World Home – But at What Cost?
How did something so distinctively American as jazz reach the young Republic of Estonia?Continue Reading →
The Meaning of a Memorial: Reading Kaunas’s Garden of War
Looking at the site of memory in Kaunas, the “dying for…” is clear: the highest aim of the Lithuanian nation is freedomContinue Reading →
The Best of the Best: Why Mark Shapiro of Laika Studios Loves Estonian Animation
"I think Estonian films are unique and proven; comedic, tragic, irreverent, often with world class scores. The best of the best."Continue Reading →
Era of Dance: How Riga Brought Techno Music to the Soviet Union
A new Latvian/Russian documentary film tells the story of how the techno explosion of the '80s was brought to the Soviet Union - via RigaContinue Reading →
Soviet Baltic Visuals: Images of Everyday Life in the USSR
This dramatic poster from Soviet Lithuania urges citizens to look after their forests.Continue Reading →