A CINEMATIC PORTRAIT OF A MYSTERIOUS ESTONIAN COMPOSER AND MUSICIAN, TAIVO, AND HIS ENSEMBLE, LINNAMUUSIKUD, WHO FOR DECADES HAVE CREATED UNIQUE INTER- PRETATIONS OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE
MUSIC.
A POETIC JOURNEY THROUGH EXTRAORDI- NARY TIMES AND PLACES INTO A VANISHED WORLD THAT ENDURES THANKS TO THE SPIRI- TUAL POWER OF MUSIC AND THE COMMUNITY OF REMARKABLE PEOPLE – LIVING, TRAVELING, AND PERFORMING TOGETHER.
THE FILM EXPLORES A WORLD THAT HAS LARGELY VANISHED , YET REMAINS ALIVE THROUGH THE SPIRITUAL POWER OF MUSIC AND THE PEOPLE WHO EMBODY IT.
RATHER THAN DOCUMENTING SUCCESS OR BIOGRAPHY, THE FILM SEEKS TO CAPTURE A WAY OF BEING ROOTED IN DEVOTION, PATIENCE, AND QUIET CONTINUITY ACROSS GENERATIONS.
ULTIMATELY, IT IS A FILM ABOUT MUSIC – ITS TRUE MAIN PROTAGONIST.
FOR OVER FORTY YEARS, TAIVO HAS LED THE ENSEMBLE LINNAMUUSIKUD, CREATING UNIQUE INTERPRETATIONS OF MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC INTERTWINED WITH ESTONIAN FOLK TRADITIONS. RESERVED AND EXACTING, INDIFFERENT TO FAME, TAIVO LIVES IN A RHYTHM SHAPED BY SPIRITUALITY, WORK, AND COMMUNITY.
THE FILM UNFOLDS THROUGH A JOURNEY FROM TALLINN TO SOUTHERN POLAND AND CULMINATES IN A CONCERT IN RADRUŻ CHURCH – A STRUCTURE THAT OPENS INTO MEMORIES, VISIONS, AND POETIC ASSOCIA- TIONS.
THE SCREENWRITER AND DIRECTOR OF THE FILM , JAN BARCENTEWICZ – AN ALUMNUS OF THE PRESTIGIOUS ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART IN LONDON AND THE FOUNDER OF THE APOFENA-INCARNA FILM STUDIO KNOWN FOR HIS POETIC STYLE.
INTENSIVE SOUND DESIGN IS CRAFTED BY RENOWNED LENARCZYK, RECOGNISED FOR HIS SOPHISTICATED AND COMPLEX COMPOSITIONS.
SOUND DESIGNER MARCIN LENARCZYK, RECOGNISED FOR HIS SOPHISTI-CATED AND COMPLEX COMPOSITIONS.