Biography
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!!! …
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Time Out (1985) — Director
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Breakfast on the Grass (1987) — Director
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Animated Self-Portraits (1989) — Director
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Hotel E (1992) — Director
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The Triangle (1982) — Director
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...And Plays Tricks (1978) — Director
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Night of the Carrots (1998) — Director
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1895 (1995) — Director
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Some Exercises in Preparation for Independent Life (1981) — Director
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Is the Earth Round? (1977) — Director
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Life Without Gabriella Ferri (2008) — Director
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Karl and Marilyn (2003) — Director
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I Feel in the Back of My Head... (2007) — Director
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Divers in the Rain (2009) — Director
- Pilots on the Way Home (2014) — Director
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Luna Rossa (2024) — Director
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The Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story (2017) — Director
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Black Ceiling (2007) — Director
