Kersti Uibo: Author’s evening
On 22 September, Kersti Uibo celebrates her 70th birthday.
Her subtle, observant portraiture is a phenomenon in its own right in this documentary film.
In her unobtrusive recordings, based on a relationship of trust, she applies, time and again, a simple human touch. Time flows slowly and thoughtfully in them; the image does not merely depict a specific action or reality, but rather points, in its own way, to something that transcends it: let us call it a love of life. Her films have provided the inspiration to carry on living.
“The result draws the viewer into its spell; it is as enjoyable as a good psychological novel,” is how the film critic Lauri Kärk has described one of her most acclaimed films, Still Life with a Woman.
At Kersti Uibo’s author’s evening, one of her earliest films, Evald’s Acre, and her latest film, Wombstone, will be screened for the audience, accompanied by the director’s commentary. Evald’s Acre follows the theologian Evald Saag and his wife Emilie; this warm and heartfelt film, completed in 1994 while the author was a student at the National Film and Television School in England, also brought the director her first major accolade, the Grand Prix at the Pärnu Documentary Film Festival. Wombstone, in contrast, is a wordless meditation on roots and existence, symbolised by a boulder that arrived here thousands of years ago.