Evenings of Cinema with Arvo Pärt - Dorian Supin: Even if I Lose Everything
ARVO PäRT - EVEN IF I LOSE EVERYTHING
(Arvo Pärt - isegi kui ma kõik kaotan)
Estonian documentary, 90 min., 2015
directed by Dorian Supin
"Even if I lose everything…"
That’s what Arvo Pärt wrote in his workbook which is a kind of diary. For decades in the course of writing music he has filled the workbooks with contemplations expressing his moments of grief and joy, his discoveries, worries and experiences, things that bring to light the inner life of the artist.
In this film, Arvo Pärt studies his workbook notes with Immo Mihkelson which is a fascinating and interesting activity. There are incomprehensible notes but also very enlightening ones. The records evoke thoughts, memories, discoveries. We’ll see a person in search of his path and we’ll understand that the path is a narrow one. The film contains also home videos showing Arvo Pärt as he is: a kind and hard-working, good-humoured and caring person, composer, husband, father, grandfather..
Concerts and numerous other events around the world celebrate the 80-year-old Arvo Pärt in 2015. The works of the worldwide famous Estonian composer are accessible not only on concerts and on records, but quite often in cinemas as well. Pärt’s music inspired numerous film directors from Jean-Luc Godard through Tom Tykwer up to last year’s Oscar-winning Paolo Sorrentino. The movie series of the the Estonian Institute presents films, featuring Arvo Pärt’s music, as well as two documentaries about the composer.
The screenings will be introduced by music and film critic László Kolozsi, lecturer at MOME (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest).
Free entry!