{"id":68843,"date":"2024-12-23T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/?page_id=68843"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:33:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:33:40","slug":"the-waterfowl-people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/en\/discover\/travelling-exhibitions\/the-waterfowl-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The Waterfowl People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The informational exhibition presents the making of <strong>Lennart Meri<\/strong>&#8216;s legendary documentaries about the Finno-Ugric peoples (<em>The Waterfowl People<\/em>, <em>The Winds of the Milky Way<\/em>, <em>The Voices of Kaleva<\/em> and others) and introduces the cultures of our kindred peoples. The exhibition is based on photographic material taken during the expeditions, with texts by <strong>Enn S\u00e4de<\/strong>, the sound director who took part in the expedition.<\/p><p>In order to record the material for the films, repeated expeditions were made to the settlements of Finno-Ugric peoples in 1969-1988, and ethnographers, folklorists, artists and writers participated in the work of the film crew.<\/p><div class=\"my-12 my-md-16 px-4 pt-6 border-primary-top content-section\">\r\n    \n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>Compilers:<\/strong> accompanying texts written by Enn S\u00e4de, design by Peeter Laurits.<br><strong>Additional programme:<\/strong> we also help to organise additional programmes to the exhibition - screenings of some of the above-mentioned documentaries and\/or Jaak L\u00f5hmus' 'Dances to the Milky Way', meetings with expedition participants, etc.<\/pre><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>Volume:<\/strong> 14 easily installable lightweight PVC boards (75 x 100 cm). Packed in a transport box. The texts on the boards are in Estonian, with additional A3 boards in English and Russian available on request. Texts in foreign languages can also be printed in the same layout as A4 handouts.<br><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Fenno-Ugria<br><strong>Contact and ordering:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:info@fennougria.ee\">info@fennougria.ee<\/a> <\/pre><\/div><\/div>\n\r\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"720\" data-id=\"26682\" src=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Veelinnurahvas_Poltsamaa-512x720.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Veelinnurahvas_Poltsamaa-512x720.jpg 512w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Veelinnurahvas_Poltsamaa-284x400.jpg 284w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Veelinnurahvas_Poltsamaa-142x200.jpg 142w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Veelinnurahvas_Poltsamaa.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" data-id=\"26527\" src=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/110dc966602bb324d70b97580afdf16a.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/110dc966602bb324d70b97580afdf16a.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/110dc966602bb324d70b97580afdf16a-300x400.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/110dc966602bb324d70b97580afdf16a-150x200.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" data-id=\"26525\" src=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nganassaani-540x720.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nganassaani-540x720.jpg 540w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nganassaani-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nganassaani-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nganassaani-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nganassaani-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nganassaani-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nganassaani-1568x2091.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/fennougria.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nganassaani-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lennart Meri&#8217;s film journeys 1969-1988<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":25181,"parent":68837,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[3249,3286],"class_list":["post-68843","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-documentary-films-en","tag-person-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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