A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born:
January 8, 1959
Mait Mäekivi (born on 8 January 1959 in Kohtla-Järve) is an Estonian cinematographer. 1982-1988 he studied at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. 1986-1991 he worked at Tallinnfilm. From 1991 he is a freelance cinematographer. In 2007 he was awarded with Order of the White Star, V class.
"B" Camera Operator:
2017 November
Assistant Camera:
1981 The Ideal Landscape
1981 The Smacking Sea
2017 November
Camera Operator:
1981 The Ideal Landscape
1981 The Smacking Sea
1998 Standing by the Forest
2010 Dances for the Milky Way. Lennart Meri's Film Journeys
2017 November
2021 The Best of Salieri
???? The legend of Pitka
Director of Photography:
1981 The Ideal Landscape
1981 The Smacking Sea
1987 Two
1989 I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here
1990 Awakening
1992 The Sunny Kids
1998 Standing by the Forest
1999 Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye
2003 Made in Estonia
2005 Old Men's Paradise
2005 Shop of Dreams
2006 Golden Beach
2006 Mindless
2007 Whatever, Aleksander!
2007 Where Souls Go
2008 I Was Here
2008 The Wish Tree
2010 Dances for the Milky Way. Lennart Meri's Film Journeys
2010 Red Mercury
2011 Farts of Fury
2014 Robbie Williams - Live in Tallinn
2017 November
2019 Self Made Cameraman
2021 Firebird
2021 The Best of Salieri
2022 Hermaküla: Lost Father
2024 Artists of Survival
???? One-dimensional Man
???? The legend of Pitka
Screenplay:
1981 The Ideal Landscape
1981 The Smacking Sea
1987 Two
1989 I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here
1990 Awakening
1992 The Sunny Kids
1998 Standing by the Forest
1999 Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye
2003 Made in Estonia
2005 Old Men's Paradise
2005 Shop of Dreams
2006 Golden Beach
2006 Mindless
2007 Whatever, Aleksander!
2007 Where Souls Go
2008 I Was Here
2008 The Wish Tree
2010 Dances for the Milky Way. Lennart Meri's Film Journeys
2010 Red Mercury
2011 Farts of Fury
2014 Robbie Williams - Live in Tallinn
2017 November
2019 Self Made Cameraman
2021 Firebird
2021 The Best of Salieri
2022 Hermaküla: Lost Father
2024 Artists of Survival
???? One-dimensional Man
???? The legend of Pitka
Second Unit Director of Photography:
1981 The Ideal Landscape
1981 The Smacking Sea
1987 Two
1989 I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here
1990 Awakening
1992 The Sunny Kids
1998 Standing by the Forest
1999 Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye
2003 Made in Estonia
2005 Old Men's Paradise
2005 Shop of Dreams
2006 Golden Beach
2006 Mindless
2007 Whatever, Aleksander!
2007 Where Souls Go
2008 I Was Here
2008 The Wish Tree
2010 Dances for the Milky Way. Lennart Meri's Film Journeys
2010 Red Mercury
2011 Farts of Fury
2014 Robbie Williams - Live in Tallinn
2017 November
2019 Self Made Cameraman
2021 Firebird
2021 The Best of Salieri
2022 Hermaküla: Lost Father
2024 Artists of Survival
???? One-dimensional Man
???? The legend of Pitka
Still Photographer:
1981 The Ideal Landscape
1981 The Smacking Sea
1987 Two
1989 I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here
1990 Awakening
1992 The Sunny Kids
1998 Standing by the Forest
1999 Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye
2000 Foreign Fields
2003 Made in Estonia
2005 Old Men's Paradise
2005 Shop of Dreams
2006 Golden Beach
2006 Mindless
2007 Whatever, Aleksander!
2007 Where Souls Go
2008 I Was Here
2008 Taarka
2008 The Wish Tree
2010 Dances for the Milky Way. Lennart Meri's Film Journeys
2010 Red Mercury
2011 Farts of Fury
2014 Robbie Williams - Live in Tallinn
2017 November
2019 Self Made Cameraman
2021 Firebird
2021 The Best of Salieri
2022 Hermaküla: Lost Father
2024 Artists of Survival
???? One-dimensional Man
???? The legend of Pitka
Camera Operator:
2010 ENSV
2019 EnsV
Director of Photography:
2008 Windward Land
2010 ENSV
2019 EnsV
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