Juhan's middle-class existence is determined by a constant back and forth between three women: One is his wife, at home with him and yet the most distant of them all; the second is his mistress, who is also involved with someone else; while the third lives in a tent in the nearby forest and is supplied with food and medicine by him. This somewhat neurotic existence in a triangle is further complicated by dreams, visions and apparitions. How good that everyone here is familiar with shamanic rituals ...
Jaan Toomik is one of Estonia's most important contemporary artists. He came to cinema slowly, via performance videos, short documentaries and his first fictional experiments with non-professional actors, which are remotely reminiscent of Ulrich Seidl. Toomik's work is anchored in an ethnography of everyday life - an enthusiasm for all the strange to banal rituals that pervade our existence. Landscape with Many Moons (Maastik mitme kuuga) (2014), his first feature film, seems like a fabric of such rituals, a long dream that constantly changes its rules, shape, formal language and sensuality - from which one might not wake up.
