Online catalogue

With Shuma (along with Corner), Lucija Mrzljak successfully finished her animation studies in Tallinn. After studying in Zagreb, Krakow and Prague, Lucija ‘found herself’ in contemporary Estonian animation style. She inherited her sense of the specifically absurd Estonian humour from her teachers, Priit and Olga Pärn.

People are waiting for someone special. Someone special is born – a grown-up man in a suit. They follow the man and cheer his theatrical but utterly pointless performances. In the middle of one performance he makes a mistake and the people who have so far adored him, leave. Left alone, he meets a woman who is made for him. The theatrical performances continue.

The Closing Door is a visually attractive music video for the song of a popular Irish singer that takes you on a mysterious journey with the simple movements of a brush and black ink. Its author uses a black-and-white style and frames the music video with abstract sequences.

Lucija Mrzljak eventually settled in Tallinn, where she now works in the famous Eesti Joonisfilm studio. Inspired by the Estonian weakness for absurd situations and hard-to-grasp phenomena, which entirely organically become parts of the heroes’ everyday lives, and drawing with simple lines, she has made a captivating film about relationships and the longing for freedom.