Constant Muse - photographs of Billy Justema by Ma.Les Années folles - French fashion of the 1920's f.Les hommes, toujours - a selection of male portraits.The assassin's parents - portraits of Prince and P.Dreaming of rooms - a selection of eighteenth and.I think this movie was almost prophetic about the collapse of the SU only 3 years later and the end part was exactly about leaving it, leaving all that madness and absurdity that used to be part of everyday life back then. Such areas are present in many cities in Estonia, even in Tallinn (Pelguranna). Anyway, the connection with this post is that it shows the emptiness of streets, empty city, almost abandoned, but the buildings are of the Stalinist style similar to these in this post so the haunting emptiness is so evident and, at least in my case, captivating too. Valton himself was also part of the movie-making. The movie expands the story a lot and the author A. It is very allegorical, it is made after a short story by Arvo Valton in 1972. A haunting short movie was made there in 1988, called Vernanda, here with English subtitles, obviously digitalised from a VHS tape: It's been my all time favourite since I first saw it during my high school years or even earlier. It has its old part and that is full of similar-looking Stalinist buildings from 1950's. It is one of the two towns that were closed during the Soviet time: it was used only for military purposes (the other such town was Paldiski). There is a small town in East Estonia called Sillamäe. Buildings like these were also built later, in 1940's and 1950's (maybe this is called historicism in architecture, I don't know). Pictures like these help doing that.Īnother thing related to all this. I'm not interested in the future, just bring me back to 1960's or 1760's would be amazing. Wow, what a post! This 18th-19th century architecture looks so cool: the sometimes bland and almost hidden beauty, the emptiness that surrounds the buildings, even if on the plans and drawings only.
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