Priit P�rn
Priit Pärn (born in 1946) is an Estonian animated film director and graphic artist whose films have enjoyed success among critics as well as the public at various film festivals. He is, by many, considered to be one of the most important and influential animated film directors at present.
Pärn's (who used to be working as a plant ecologist) career in animation began when he accepted Rein Raamat's proposal to make a design for The Gothamites (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), Luncheon on the Grass (1987), Hotel E (1991), 1895 (co-directed by Janno Põldma, 1995) and Night of the Carrots (1998).
Pärn's style is charactericed by black humour, playful surrealism and a unique graphical 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 Sojuzmultfilm. 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
