The successful screening series of the Estonian Institute presenting the numerous links between Arvo Pärt’s music and cinema is to be continued in 2017. Pärt’s music inspired numerous film directors from Jean-Luc Godard through Tom Tykwer. 

GERRY
American drama film, 2002, 99 min.
directed by Gus Van Sant

Two men named Gerry are driving through the desert regions of Death Valley, traveling toward an unknown destination. They pull over and set out on foot, presuming they're getting close to what they've come to find. Before long, Gerry and Gerry are lost in an unforgiving desert without food, water or other provisions, and the harder they try to find their way back to their car, they only dig themselves deeper and deeper into the desert...
The film's style was largely inspired by the work of Hungarian director Béla Tarr, namely its use of extended scenes playing out in uncut master shots. There are a few direct visual quotations from Tarr's Sátántangó such as a shot following the two protagonists while tumbleweeds blow around them that mimics a shot in Tarr's film where three people walk through a town as a windstorm blows around leaves and trash.

Works of Arvo Pärt used in the soundtrack: Spiegel im Spiegel; Für Alina

The screening will be introduced by film- and music critic László Kolozsi. (in Hungarian)