Since the early 1970s, many wildly creative Estonian artists have produced an incredibly influential and diverse body of experimental animation that rivals the traditions of any other European country. Though the vitality of Estonian animation extends back even decades more, the work that began to emerge at this time via brilliant and irreverent artists such as Rein Raamat and Priit Pärn made a huge impact, inspiring an adventurousness in animation practice marked by eclectic techniques and an unusually expressive and audacious visual style. Themes of dehumanization, oppression, and radical liberation permeate many of these intoxicating films, with their complexity of idea and vision only matched by their dark humor and anarchic spirit. (Mark Toscano)