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Eile, 21. novembril kogunes MoKSi Maailmafilmi festivali meeskond rasket tööd tegema. Toimub ju tuleval aastal, 18.-24. märtsini festival juba 10. korda! Nii nad siin siis sebivad aeg-ajalt maja peal, et siis tundideks oma stuudiosse kaduda. Kes tegeleb festivalikavasse sobivate filmide valimisega, kes jällegi kõige muuga, mis on festivali õnnestunud toimumiseks hädavajalik – nt rahastus- ja kommunikatsioonitöö…
Varasema kogemuse põhjal võib öelda, et kardetavasti muutuvad töötunnid üha pikemaks-pikemaks, ja öötunnid üha lühemaks-lühemaks. Kõik 200-300 filmi on ju vaja läbi vaadata ja ikka need kõige-kõige sobivamad välja valida, plaanid paika saada… Töö intensiivsusest annab tunnistust ka see, et meie keldrigaleriis olevat Meiu Mündi suurepärast näitust ei ole nad veel vaatama vist jõudnudki. Nii ma seda muidugi ei jäta!
Täpsmalt ja huvitavamaid fakte toimunud tööprotsessist ja/või selle tulemustest, on loota mõne aja pärast ehk ERMi blogist.
MoKSil on igatahes väga hea meel, et meil on sellised toredad sõbrad (filmis ja elus) nagu Jaanika ja Pille, Eva ja Siim, Taavi ja Reimo ja Maailmafilm!

“If my chief wants me to work faster, of course …” (the subtitles on the film still). Vaikelu tööstuudios lõunapausi ajal. / Still life in the studio while team is having lunch.

Yesterday, on November 21st, the Worldfilm Festival team gathered at MoKS to work here for few days. The next Worldfilm festival will be held on 18th to 24th of March 2013, and it’s already the 10th anniversary! It’s really nice to see the team members being busily around in the house, and then disappearing for hours to their working studio. Some of them are busy choosing the films for the program, from a selection of 200-300 films! The others work on everything else that is necessary for the festival to be successful (like funding and communication).
From previous experience I venture to say that the working days for them are getting longer and longer, and sleeping hours shorter and shorter… But let’s keep our fingers crossed and wish them good luck!
We are really happy here at MoKS to have Jaanika and Pille, Eva and Siim, Taavi and Reimo and Worldfilm – our friends in life and film – here with us!

[Siiri]

Here are some more pictures from Avamaa’12, taken by Moks camera. The beehive is closed, and many of the buildings destroyed, by man force and nature, by will and by accident. A pity, perhaps. But, you say, this was to be expected, if you build from cardboard.

Thus the end of Moksville was symbolically ruled by fire and water. One after another, these two elements took power over us, and we finished our week with burning the energy tower in the morning (another Error Event) and a real shower of rain in the afternoon.

The water had really taken its turn to govern when we tried patiently to lit the maboro-ship for sending the ancestors back… from the lake to the river, from the river to the ocean… Indeed, we had been inventing all sorts of different ways to make cardboard waterproof – but by the end of Sunday’s showers, it had also somehow become fireproof!

The city is destroyed, and a new Rome will soon rise from its ashes. Yet something remains, when the Moksville is gone. Some memories with beautiful people remain, and some dreams and plans for the future. And some building experience as well.

(madli)

(by Siiri)

MoKS resident artist Masayo and me we were just cleaning the chanterelles when… there they were … arrived. During a few hours, the cores of all the groups. Bits of Error Collective after Playground Italians, Maboro Maiko (to accompany Masayo) after some more Error Collective. And then the CamObs Danny along with the crew – Patrick after Mari, Tuuli after Patrick and vice versa, as some of them disappeared to some more chanterelle picking in the mean time. So many arrivals! First everyone was guided to their rooms, and after they got to know their space and settled in, more and more people found their way to the dining hall.
After long hours waiting patiently, finally at half past 9 the dinner was served by the crew – delicious chanterelle quiche. And one without mushrooms, and one meal without eggs and butter as well.
After the dinner we had a greeting and introduction speech about this years’ symposium and its basic idea from John as well as the circle of „getting to know each other”. It appeared quickly that we have artists and non-artists gathered to participate this year (again?) – for example the designers and architects refused to call themselves as “artist“. We also have our own local biologist to help us out to differentiate a tick from a little spider, and in the mean time write his own blog (in Estonian).
For food we were enjoying the donations from Mari K. and her mother from Mooste garden, and a really popular red currant drink made out of juice from Tiiu working in Villakoda.

The sleeping time seemed to start quite early for everybody. I guess for waking up next morning to the smells of Mari’s porridge and Siiri’s coffee. For this breakfast we had to be grateful for other supporters – some oat flakes for porridge and super special apple-zuccini-lemon jam from Liilia, and wonderful black currant jam from Mari’s granny.
10.30, according to John’s schedule, the Mooste tour started. If usually the guided tours here are all about the manor and the old times – when things were built, for what purpose, and what are they used for nowadays –, then on our walk the culturally interesting objects included: trash wood sticks pile next to old piggery, all-kind-of-trash on many other spots around the manor, The Site (becoming Moksville), allotment gardens, directions to The Café (our lunch place for most of the days), and trash wood sticks pile next to the kindergarden.
While back to MoKS, one could see really serious working mood all over the house – I spotted Noora and Juha first seriously discussing and drawing in the eating hall and then very soon in the basement trying out smth mystical with strings, Justin setting up electronic workshop on the other side of the basement. Italians remained more hidden – only after the nice lunch at Mooste Kohvik I spotted two of them also drawing or writing smth at the eating hall. And even more hidden remained the sweet Japanese girls. Probably they are developing the concept and prework, and also waiting for their volunteers – Tartu art school students – to arrive on Monday to help them out. On the first full-day, naturally, not much else is there to be seen yet but the huge sparkle of excitement in everybody’s eyes, and some serious thinking can be concluded, as the questions have started to merge and sound – about the additional supplies everybody have spotted still laying seemingly deserted, without an owner, all around the old agricultural / collective farm surrounding.