THE MEASURE OF MAN
Is environmental crisis really a crisis of environment or is it the crisis of our aspirations, values and habits? The story of environmental change is not about drought or floods, its characters are not politicians or public spokesmen. It is my story, your story, and the story that connects us both. The Measure of Man captures the atmosphere of anticipation, change looming in the air, the end of story as they are experienced by a well-off lawyer in the rush of Manhattan (NYC, USA), a young barber in town of Hasankeyf in Turkey, a family of fisherman on pictorial Tonle Sap in the heart of Cambodia, and a publisher in the all-eco quarter Vauban in Freiburg in Southern Germany.
2010, Estonia, 56 min.
Prod.: Marianne Ostrat, Vallo Veering
Script: Kaie Kotov, Marianne Kõrver
Dir.: Marianne Kõrver
Dir. of Phot.: Margus Malm
Music: Robert Jürjendal, Lauri-Dag Tüür
Sound: Horret Kuus, Martin Vinkel
Edit.: Margo Siimon
Marianne Kõrver (b. 1980)
Marianne Kõrver is a documentary filmmaker. She graduated from Baltic Film and Media School, majoring in film directing. Before joining the team of The Measure of Man, she has done several portrait documentaries about Estonian artists and composers. Marianne Kõrver’s main subjects of interest are human, environment and religion - and the difficult and contradictory relations between these subjects in the modern Western civilization.
Filmography
The Sum of the Absent Days (2005), Fist (2006), Do You Have Some Light, Please? (2007), Amateurs (2008), Erkki-Sven Tüür: 7 Etudes in Pictures (2010), The Measure of Man (2010).