Terje Toomistu

Terje Toomistu is an Estonian documentary filmmaker with a background in anthropology. Her work often draws from various cross-cultural processes, queer realities and cultural memory. She holds double MA degrees in ethnology and in communication studies from the University of Tartu, where she is pursuing a PhD degree in anthropology. In 2013-2014, she was also a Fulbright fellow at UC Berkeley, CA. Currently she is a visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam. She co-curated a multimedia exhibition about Soviet hippies, which has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally.

Getting high in the Soviet-occupied Estonia

By Terje Toomistu / October 30, 2017 October 30, 2017 / 10 minutes of reading

The Estonian director Terje Toomistu, who recently completed a documentary about the hippie movement in the Soviet Union, writes about the drug culture behind the …

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Make love, not war – hippie movement in the Estonian SSR

By Terje Toomistu / October 12, 2014 April 28, 2016 / 4 minutes of reading

In the autumn of 1970, a rumour about a major hippie gathering coming to the Town Hall Square was spread around Tallinn. All the long-haired guys …

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Getting high in the Soviet-occupied Estonia

Make love, not war – hippie movement in the Estonian SSR

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