Priit Pärn
Priit Pärn (born August 26, 1946 in Tallinn) is an Estonian cartoonist and animation director whose films have enjoyed success among critics as well as the public at various film festivals. Pärn formerly worked as a plant ecologist; his career in animation began when he accepted Rein Raamat's proposal to make a design for Kilplased (1974). After a brief apprenticeship in Joonisfilm, he directed his first film Is the Earth Round? in 1977. Pärn's most important films are considered to be Triangle (1982), Breakfast on the Grass (1987), Hotel E (1992), 1895 (co-directed by Janno Põldma, 1995) and Night of the Carrots (1998). Pärn's style is characterized by black humour, playful surrealism and a unique graphic style. His somewhat crude style marked the departure from both Rein Raamat's overtly serious and moralizing films as well as the Disneyesque style propagated by the directors of Soyuzmultfilm. In his footsteps (and occasionally copying his style to a large degree) have followed numerous new generation Estonian film makers, most notably Ülo Pikkov and Priit Tender. Influences of Pärn's graphical style can also be seen in such commercial animated series as Rugrats and AAAHH!!! Real Monsters! directed by Igor Kovalyov. In 2002 Pärn was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Animated Film Association, and he received Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb in 2008. Divers in the Rain (2010), co-directed with his wife Olga Pärn, became the most successful Estonian animated film of all time with its 18th award at KROK International Animated Film Festival in Ukraine. Pärn had taught animation at the Arts Academy of the Turku University of Applied Sciences in Turku, Finland since 1994 and now he is teaching at Estonian Academy of Arts.
Hotel E
(Art Direction)
Hotel E
(Art Designer)
Hotel E
(Background Designer)
Time Out
(Art Direction)
Life Without Gabriella Ferri
(Writer)
Life Without Gabriella Ferri
(Director)
Life Without Gabriella Ferri
(Editor)
I Feel in the Back of My Head...
(Director)
I Feel in the Back of My Head...
(Writer)
Time Out
(Director)
Karl and Marilyn
(Director)
Breakfast on the Grass
(Director)
Hotel E
(Director)
Some Exercises in Preparation of an Independent Life
(Writer)
Some Exercises in Preparation of an Independent Life
(Director)
The Triangle
(Director)
The Triangle
(Writer)
Theatre Papa Carlo
(Writer)
Sunday
(Art Direction)
Music Box
(Supervising Editor)
A Romper
(Art Direction)
Frank & Wendy
(Writer)
Rugrats Go Wild
(Co-Director)
Visions of Europe
(Writer)
四季
(Animation Director)
...And Plays Tricks
(Writer)
...And Plays Tricks
(Art Direction)
Hotel E
(Writer)
1895
(Writer)
...And Plays Tricks
(Director)
Divers in the Rain
(Director)
1895
(Director)
Night of the Carrots
(Writer)
Night of the Carrots
(Director)
Divers in the Rain
(Writer)
Giraffe
(Art Direction)
Noblesse Oblige
(Writer)
The Pigeon Lady
(Art Direction)
Karl and Marilyn
(Art Direction)
Karl and Marilyn
(Editor)
Pilots on the Way Home
(Director)
Song of Songs
(Producer)
Frank & Wendy
(Art Direction)
Crocodile
(Script Consultant)
Time Out
(Writer)
1895
(Dialogue)
1895
(Character Designer)
The Easy Writer
(Writer)
The Triangle
(Art Direction)
Divers in the Rain
(Art Direction)
Divers in the Rain
(Background Designer)
Pilots on the Way Home
(Character Designer)
Pilots on the Way Home
(Art Direction)
Pilots on the Way Home
(Editor)
Is the Earth Round?
(Art Direction)
Some Exercises in Preparation of an Independent Life
(Art Direction)
Luna Rossa
(Director)
Breakfast on the Grass
(Editor)
I Feel in the Back of My Head...
(Art Direction)
The Simpletons
(Art Direction)
1895
(Art Direction)
Night of the Carrots
(Editor)
The Pearlman
(Script Consultant)
Marathon
(Script Consultant)
Life Without Gabriella Ferri
(Art Direction)
Life Without Gabriella Ferri
(Animation)
XYZtopia
(Script Consultant)
The Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story
(Animation)
Life with Herman H. Rott
(Script Consultant)
The Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story
(Art Direction)
Pilots on the Way Home
(Animation)
Fatcula
(Script Consultant)
The Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story
(Writer)
A Demonstration of Brilliance in Four Acts
(Script Consultant)
A Demonstration of Brilliance in Four Acts
(Editor)
Cante
(Editor)
Frank & Wendy
(Background Designer)
Animated Self-Portraits
(Writer)
Animated Self-Portraits
(Director)
The Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story
(Director)
Luna Rossa
(Writer)
Luna Rossa
(Art Direction)
Is the Earth Round?
(Director)
Breakfast on the Grass
(Writer)
Zorg II: Fall Of Thera
(Producer)
Manivald
(Dramaturgy)
The Pigeon Lady
(Writer)
Giraffe
(Writer)
Karl and Marilyn
(Writer)
Layers
(Producer)
Is the Earth Round?
(Writer)
Breakfast on the Grass
(Art Direction)
Pilots on the Way Home
(Writer)
Fly Mill
(Producer)
Fly Mill
(Editor)