Circus

We all carry hell with us. The filmmaker’s hell exists on a canvas, which he studied carefully in childhood. The mystical picture has many names: Circus, Hell, Game at the Arena. Decades later he finds the painting again. The film unravels as loose ponderings about the plight of being an artist and touches upon the filmmaker’s personal demons. Can he see the painting in a new light?

• depression
• chaos
• subconsciousness
• painting
• trauma
• hell
• surrealism
• alcoholism
• family
• childhood
• mental health
• memories
• generations
• estonian art