Jaan Toomik

Directing

Jaan Toomik

Born 1961-10-02 · Tartu, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

Jaan Toomik (born October 2, 1961 in Tartu) is an Estonian video artist, painter and award-winning filmmaker, often described as the most widely acknowledged Estonian contemporary artist on the international scene.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Invisible Pearls poster
NR

A hidden aspect of prison culture is revealed

Invisible Pearls

2004

No artwork available
NR

A soldier is released from the Soviet army and he travels home. 25 years later he sets out again to be relieved from the pressure that has been distressing him for all these years. He undertakes a ritual journey to a far-away village graveyard to free himself from the torturous memory and the ambiguous feeling of guilt for a tragic accident in the army.

Oleg

Fish poster
4.0

Jaan Toomik's short film about the transmission of life between generations. The father takes his son fishing.

Fish

2018

Liina poster
NR

A conversation with Liina about the different people inhabiting her.

Liina

2003

Landscape with Many Moons poster
7.0

“Landscape with Many Moons“ is a drama about a middle-aged man who lives a seemingly ordinary life with his wife and children. The truth is, however, that their relationship has reached a dead end but they prefer the illusory decorations of living together to the free fall into emptiness. The man gallivants around between his previous and current relationships without knowing exactly what to do with them. Living on the edge starts to overburden his nervous system and as a result, actual reality and dream-like reality blend together and it becomes ever harder to distinguish between what is real and what is not.

Landscape with Many Moons

2014

Landscape with Many Moons poster
7.0

“Landscape with Many Moons“ is a drama about a middle-aged man who lives a seemingly ordinary life with his wife and children. The truth is, however, that their relationship has reached a dead end but they prefer the illusory decorations of living together to the free fall into emptiness. The man gallivants around between his previous and current relationships without knowing exactly what to do with them. Living on the edge starts to overburden his nervous system and as a result, actual reality and dream-like reality blend together and it becomes ever harder to distinguish between what is real and what is not.

Landscape with Many Moons

2014

Two Men on Train and Someone Else poster
NR

Peppered with elegiac undertones, this farewell story takes us to the world of old men getting ready to say their goodbyes to the world. Each in their own bizarre way. Nothing tragic, but the crossing of the threshold of eternity is still an enigma for all of them, just as is life itself.

Two Men on Train and Someone Else

2023

Two Men on Train and Someone Else poster
NR

Peppered with elegiac undertones, this farewell story takes us to the world of old men getting ready to say their goodbyes to the world. Each in their own bizarre way. Nothing tragic, but the crossing of the threshold of eternity is still an enigma for all of them, just as is life itself.

Two Men on Train and Someone Else

2023