The successful screening series of the Estonian Institute presenting the numerous links between Arvo Pärt’s music and cinema is to be continued in 2016. Pärt’s music inspired numerous film directors from Jean-Luc Godard through Tom Tykwer.

Arvo Pärt – Robert Wilson:
ADAM'S PASSION
(Aadama passioon)
Estonian-German concert film, 2015, 94 min.
Music by Arvo Pärt
Stage direction, set design and lighting concept by Robert Wilson
Musical director and conductor: Tõnu Kaljuste
Featuring: Lucinda Childs, Michael Theophanous, Endro Roosimäe, Erki Laur, Tatjana Kosmõnina, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Directed by Andy Sommer

Adam’s Passion is the moving first collaboration between two "masters of slow motion who harmonize perfectly with each other" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). In the spectacular setting of a former submarine factory, American director and universal artist Robert Wilson created a poetic visual world in which the mystical musical language of the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt could cast its meditative spell.

Three of Pärt’s major works - Adam’s Lament, Tabula rasa, and Miserere, as well as Sequentia, a new work dedicated to Robert Wilson and composed especially for this production - were brought together using light, space, and movement to create a tightly-woven gesamtkunstwerk in which the artistic visions of these two great artists mirror each other.

adamspassion.de

With the kind permission of Accentus Music (www.accentus.com).

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