16.01 at 17:00
NART, Joala 18
Free
Everyone is invited to the cinema screening of Eléonore de Montesquiou’s film’s “Factory Kreenholm”(2010) and another one about Paldiski and Sillamäe, which are part of the EKA “Abandoned Landscapes” course.
Paldiski, a coastal resort near Tallinn, was destroyed during WWII. During the Soviet period, Paldiski became a Soviet military training center for nuclear submarines. The town was closed, even to the Estonian people.
Sillamäe was also a secret and closed town, built for those who would extract uranium and do nuclear research. Sillamäe had only a code name and was not shown in film, photo, and map archives in Estonia.