- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- August 26, 1946
- Place of Birth
- Tallinn, Harju County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
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 Soy…
Filmography
movieLuna Rossa
2024 · Director, Writer, Art Direction
movieGori the Caricaturist
2023 · Self
movieZorg II: Fall Of Thera
2020 · Producer
Layers
movieLayers
2020 · Producer
Cante
movieCante
2019 · Editor
movieManivald
2018 · Dramaturgy
movieA Demonstration of Brilliance in Four Acts
2018 · Editor, Script Consultant
movieMusic Box
2018 · Supervising Editor
movieThe Eyeless Hunter: A Khanty Story
2017 · Art Direction, Animation, Writer, Director
四季
movie四季
2017 · Animation Director
Don't Wake Up
movieDon't Wake Up
2017 · Supervising Animation Director
movieFatcula
2016 · Script Consultant
movieLife with Herman H. Rott
2015 · Script Consultant
Pilots on the Way Home
moviePilots on the Way Home
2014 · Director, Character Designer, Art Direction, Editor, Animation, Writer
XYZtopia
movieXYZtopia
2013 · Script Consultant
moviePriit Pärn in Tallinn
2013
movieFly Mill
2011 · Producer, Editor
movieBreakfast on the Grass
2011 · Editor
movieSong of Songs
2010 · Producer
movieCrocodile
2009 · Script Consultant
movieDivers in the Rain
2009 · Director, Writer, Art Direction, Background Designer
movieLife Without Gabriella Ferri
2008 · Director, Writer, Editor, Art Direction, Animation
movieBlack Ceiling
2007 · Director
A Night Without the Pope
movieA Night Without the Pope
2007 · Self
movieI Feel in the Back of My Head...
2007 · Director, Writer, Art Direction
movieMarathon
2006 · Script Consultant
movieThe Pearlman
2006 · Script Consultant
Pärnography
moviePärnography
2005 · Self
movieFrank & Wendy
2005 · Writer, Art Direction, Background Designer
movieVisions of Europe
2004 · Writer
movieRugrats Go Wild
2003 · Co-Director
movieKarl and Marilyn
2003 · Director, Art Direction, Editor, Writer
movieNight of the Carrots
1998 · Director, Writer, Editor
movie1895
1995 · Writer, Director, Character Designer, Dialogue, Art Direction
movieHotel E
1992 · Art Direction, Art Designer, Background Designer, Director, Writer
movieAnimated Self-Portraits
1989 · Writer, Director
movieNoblesse Oblige
1989 · Writer
movieTheatre Papa Carlo
1988 · Writer
movieBreakfast on the Grass
1987 · Director, Writer, Art Direction
movieGiraffe
1986 · Art Direction, Writer
movieTime Out
1985 · Art Direction, Director, Writer
movieArabella, the Pirate's Daughter
1983 · Pirate
movieThe Pigeon Lady
1983 · Art Direction, Writer
movieThe Triangle
1982 · Director, Writer, Art Direction
movieSome Exercises in Preparation for Independent Life
1981 · Director, Writer, Art Direction
movie...And Plays Tricks
1978 · Writer, Art Direction, Director
movieSunday
1977 · Art Direction
movieIs the Earth Round?
1977 · Art Direction, Director, Writer
movieIt Moves? It Moves!
1977 · Writer
movieA Romper
1975 · Art Direction
movieThe Simpletons
1974 · Art Direction
movieFairytale About His Majesty
1974 · Writer
movieThe Last Relic
1970 · Rebel
The Easy Writer
movieThe Easy Writer
— · Writer